Enforcing Your Rights when You Are Misdiagnosed

Our attorneys understand how traumatic it is to be misdiagnosed and lose precious time that could have been spent fighting your condition. Some medical research puts the number of missed or incorrect initial cancer diagnoses alone as high as 12%.

Our clients aren’t statistics to us – they’re people we care about and we fight to win them the highest possible compensation following a misdiagnosis.

The lawyers at the Jacob Fuchsberg Law Firm want you to know your legal rights with regards to a medical misdiagnosis.

Here are some steps you should take if your illness or condition is incorrectly diagnosed or missed entirely, or if you even suspect it may have been:

• Seek a second opinion from a doctor
• If he/she isn’t listening to you, get a second opinion elsewhere or request a referral to a specialist
• Once you receive a diagnosis that you are confident is correct, follow the treatment plan provided by the accurately-diagnosing doctor
• Consult with an attorney about your rights with regard to medical misdiagnosis.
• Have the details of your case ready to discuss
• Provide your attorney with all the names and contact information for anyone who participated in your care, from the initial misdiagnosis until your most recent visit or test
• The attorney will obtain your medical records and thoroughly investigate your claim with the help of our staff physician

The steps above will be followed by our vigorous pursuit of an appropriate settlement or, if necessary, taking your case to trial. You don’t pay us until we have obtained the monetary award you deserve.

Some of the more common misdiagnosis that our law firm handles:

• When Cancer is Misdiagnosed
• When Breast Cancer is Misdiagnosed
• When Gynecological Cancer is Misdiagnosed
• When Prostate Cancer is Misdiagnosed