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Man Informs 3 Doctors About His Symptoms But The Physicians Go For Years Without Diagnosing His Prostate Cancer By:-J. Hernandez
What do you do if you do not hear back on the results of the blood tests ordered by a physician? If you are like most people you assume it means they were normal as they would have called, especially if anything serious was found. This article discusses the report of a $2.5 million malpractice case which alleged that a physician failed to communicate abnormal test results indicative of prostate cancer while his other physicians failed to timely diagnose the cancer.

Doctor Settles For $1.25 Million With Family Of Individual Who Passed Away Following Multi Year Delay In Diagnosis Of Colon Cancer By:-J. Hernandez
Physicians order blood tests for a reason. If a patient's blood tests come back abnormally high or low this might suggest that there is something wrong. Follow up is then vital to find out the reason the results are abnormal. In one reported matter a person's doctor failed to follow up and therefore delayed the man's detection of colon cancer until it was advanced.

Pedestrian Suffers Various Leg Factures And Pursues $1.2 Million Personal Injury Matter Against Driver By:-J. Hernandez
If past statistics are any indication, roughly 70,000 pedestrians will be injured in a motor vehicle accident this year. All it requires is one instant of distraction, confusion, or disorientation by a driver and a pedestrian can suffer devastating injuries leaving life-long disabilities. Pursuing these claims requires skill and experience.

Case Against Nursing Home For Their Treatment Of 71 Year Old Patient Ends In Substantial Jury Award By:-J. Hernandez
This article explores a claim on behalf of a seventy one year old disabled Alzheimer's patient in a nursing home. For years the patient suffered from malnutrition and increasingly deteriorating decubitus ulcers. The case ended with a substantial jury verdict that included punitive damages.

Jury Gives $2.75 Million To Advanced Prostate Cancer Patient Whose Doctor Failed To Do Requested Screening By:-J. Hernandez
This article considers a case in which a male patient specifically asked for prostate cancer testing at an early age. His physician failed to order all the necessary tests and did not inform himthe patient that he had not been fully tested. After subsequently finding out he had metastatic prostate cancer the man sued the physician and was awarded $2.75 Million by a jury

Why Medical Malpractice Liability Results When Physician's Error Responsible For Infant's Erb's Palsy Injury By:-J. Hernandez
An Erb's palsy injury can leave a newborn with a severe lifelong disability such as the loss of motor control, sensation and possibly even the use of an arm. Although the injury may not have been preventable, it may be as a result of the application of too much pressure by the physician who delivered the newborn. In such cases, the physician may be liable for medical malpractice. This article examines how.

Screening Tests Disclose Possible Prostate Cancer But Physician Fails to Notify Patient By:-J. Hernandez
The majority of doctors recognize that high PSA levels create a need to notify the patient and to follow up with more testing to rule out prostate cancer. Should the patient does have prostate cancer not informing the patient and letting time go by without diagnostic testing risks allowing the cancer to spread. If this happens the patient might have a medical malpractice claim against the physician.

If You Have Indications Of Colon Cancer Your Doctor Ought to Order The Proper Tests Or Chance A Medical Malpractice Case By:-J. Hernandez
Being informed by a physician that one just has hemorrhoids and there is no need to be concerned about blood in the stool can be very comforting. Regrettably, the blood will some times turn out to be from colon cancer which may then go undiagnosed until it metastasizes and is no longer curable. If this happens, the doctor may have committed medical malpractice and the patient might have a lawsuit against that physician.

Fatal Car Accidents And Wrongful Death Cases By:-J. Hernandez
All too many pedestrians are killed every year as a result of a motor vehicle accident. Two cases involving a pedestrian datality from a motor vehicle are examined in this article. Such cases often pose complex issues and have the potential of a significant recovery. The plaintiffs have the burden of proving every issue in the lawsuit (both as to liability and damages).

Your Personal Injury Filing By:-Rex Maldonado
If you're a worker with a personal injury claim, you don't have to handle it alone; certain attorneys specialize in this area.

PCP And Urologist Miss Man's Prostate Cancer For 5 Years By:-J. Hernandez
Envision telling your doctors about symptoms that may be due to prostate cancer for five years; your doctors follow your symptoms and document abnormal screening test outcomes during that period; yet your doctors failed to redo a biopsy subsequently after the first time you complained of symptoms. Now envision finding out that currently you have metastatic prostate cancer. Exactly this type of situation and the ensuing wrongful death case are reviewed in this article.

Lawsuit Claiming Baby Sustained Brain Damage On account of Doctor's Hesitation In Treating GBS Infection By:-J. Hernandez
A Group B Strep infection that is not cured right away can leave a baby with devastating lifelong disabilities and even lead to the newborn's death. If a newborn whose mother was positive for GBS presents with symptoms consistent with the infection and the doctor who examines the baby does not look at the prenatal chart and does not look into whether the mother could have transmitted the bacteria to her child, the physician might be liable for medical malpractice.

Physician Pays Out $550,000 To Couple After Man's Metastatic Prostate Cancer Diagnosis By:-J. Hernandez
Nearly all individuals when they believe they might have a medical malpractice case against a physician for the delayed diagnosis of prostate cancer commonly focus only on one fact: their physician made a mistake. Yet when attorneys consider a possible claim they also take the nature and extent of the harm to the individual into account. This article reviews one claim in which a physician's actions delayed a man's diagnosis and that resulted in a medical malpractice lawsuit.

What Happens When Driver's Provide False Testimony Regarding Their Responsibility For An Accident By:-J. Hernandez
It is not unusually for a lawyer who handles motor vehicle cases to be approached about one wherein the accounts of the accident given by the victim blames the victim while that driver claims no responsibility. This article analyses the strategy used by one law firm handled a motor vehicle accident case in which the driver who caused it gave a false version of the accident.

Examples Of Instances Of Late Stage Diagnosis Of Prostate Cancer By:-J. Hernandez
None of us expect to be told that we or someone in our family has prostate cancer. It is tough enough to get that diagnosis. It is so much worse when the cancer has spread to other parts of the body and treatment can at best slow down the progress of the cancer.. However to in addition learn that a doctor knew for over a year of abnormal test results indicating the possibility of cancer By not following up on that information the doctor took away the possibility of a cure and when that takes place the doctor may be liable for medical malpractice and possibly a wrongful death case.

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