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All ER visits might seem “bad,” insofar as they require a patient to seek emergency medical treatment for an urgent illness or injury. However, a truly bad ER visit is one where you don’t get the correct treatment for your condition and suffer worse harm due to a misdiagnosis, poor surgical technique, or other error….

Emergency rooms are high pressure environments where providers must make immediate judgment calls that don’t always turn out to be correct. Some of those mistakes are ordinary medical risks that come with the treatment. Others fall below the standard of care a competent emergency physician should provide. If you believe you were misdiagnosed in an…

After experiencing negative health symptoms, many individuals seek medical attention and receive a diagnosis. Many patients who receive an adverse diagnosis, or one they feel doesn’t fit their experience, will seek a second diagnosis, only to receive a different diagnostic judgment. Getting two different diagnoses for the same symptoms is more common than most patients…

A late-stage cancer diagnosis is often earth-shattering news. It can be more devastating when you learn that earlier testing or a more attentive doctor might have caught it at an earlier stage of progression. In some cases, delayed diagnosis can support a medical malpractice claim. Late Diagnosis Alone Isn’t EnoughNot every case of cancer discovered…

Emergency rooms are built around recognizing symptom patterns. A patient presents with a set of symptoms, and the physician matches those symptoms to the most likely diagnosis. The system works well when symptoms are obvious and follow a classic presentation. However, this system can result in misdiagnosis when symptoms are atypical.Atypical Presentations in the ERAtypical symptoms are…

In cancer treatment, a positive biopsy is not the end of the diagnostic process. After confirming that cancer is present, physicians must determine how far it has spread. That process is called “staging” (i.e., what stage cancer). Staging is of critical importance because it impacts all subsequent treatment decisions. When doctors fail to move through…