Failure to Diagnose

Kirby & Holt - North Carolina Medical Misdiagnosis Attorneys

Failure to diagnose a life-threatening or serious illness or medical condition is one of the most common forms of medical malpractice. When the condition misdiagnosed or not diagnosed involves cancer, heart disease, a heart attack, or infection, the consequences to the patient can be disastrous. If you or someone in your family has suffered a serious injury or even death because of a physician's failure to diagnose a grave medical condition, contact the North Carolina medical malpractice attorneys at Kirby & Holt in Raleigh.

Our medical malpractice attorneys work closely with our full-time medical staff and outside forensic professionals to identify not only the failures of diagnosis that led to the injury, but also to quantify with reasonable precision the impact of the failure to diagnose on the patient's health, mobility, ability to live independently, and need for future treatment or nursing care.

Examples of what can happen when a physician misdiagnoses a serious illness or condition can be found in many of our own past cases:

• Lung cancer missed on X-ray, resulting in death of young mother
• Undiagnosed brain aneurysm led to loss of vision, mental impairment, and eventual death of patient
• Delayed C-section results in cerebral palsy
• Patient treated for fall from horse died of undiagnosed pulmonary embolism
• Chest pains misdiagnosed as pneumonia, patient dies of heart attack
• Years of treatment with a urologist failed to disclose a man's prostate cancer until after the cancer had metastasized
• Kidney tumor missed on X-ray, resulting in death 

We won substantial recoveries for our clients in each of these cases and many more either by settlement or jury verdict. For additional information concerning our ability to represent you in a case involving misdiagnosis of illness, heart disease, cancer, or other life-threatening condition, contact a North Carolina medical malpractice lawyer at Kirby & Holt.