Pittsburgh Medical Malpractice Attorney: Failure to Diagnose and Misdiagnosis

It is a common scenario: a patient comes in with symptoms that suggest a serious illness and he or she is diagnosed with something less serious. The underlying disease advances when it should have been caught in the first place.

Many patients are seriously injured or die each year because doctors, radiologists and other medical professionals fail to diagnose or properly treat illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, infections and cerebral palsy.

At Rosen Louik and Perry, our medical malpractice lawyers are committed to holding medical professionals responsible for these devastating mistakes. Contact our law office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania if you or a loved one is the victim of a physician's failure to diagnose, or misdiagnosis.

Our Medical Malpractice Team

Our lawyers focus their legal careers on helping victims of medical malpractice and accidents causing personal injury. This focus gives us the kind of knowledge and experience that leads to results and recognition.

Also on our team are full-time, in-house medical doctors and nurses who are able to decipher the medical record and help us find errors and other serious issues that led to a misdiagnosis, a failure to diagnose, or a failure to treat your illness.

Common Medical Diagnosis Mistakes

We represent victims of any type of misdiagnosis/failure to diagnose. These preventable errors may include:

• Failure to perform prostate tests/failure to diagnose prostate cancer
• Failure to recommend proper tests for Gastro-intestinal problems
• Diagnosis errors involving cervical cancer, including not following up with marginal pap smears and not re-testing at appropriate intervals
• Failure to properly interpret an imaging study (such as a mammogram, CT scan, MRI, X-ray, EKG or ultrasound)

Failure to Treat or Diagnose Cancer

Patients die every year because doctors and radiologists fail to diagnose cancers such as breast cancer, cervical cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer.

If you were diagnosed with an advanced stage of cancer when you went to your annual physicals and had ongoing problems, you are probably the victim of medical malpractice. Most cancers (although not all cancers) take time to grow.

Please contact our Pittsburgh medical malpractice attorneys by calling 800.440.5297 or sending us an e-mail.