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Failing to Diagnose Disease and Injury

Thanks to modern medicine, miracles that were inconceivable not long ago happen often today, offering more people a chance at a long and happy life. Diseases and events that were fatal a decade ago such as strokes, cancers, and heart attacks, can often be cured with little to no trouble.

But this is only true if the medical professionals diagnose a problem before it becomes too advanced or complicated to treat.

These medical malpractice cases are always the most heartbreaking because of the victim’s – and their family’s – lost chances. At Polewski & Associates we have handled far too many of these tragic medical malpractice cases. Just a few examples:

• Cervical cancer kills a beautiful young mother who died because the doctors and laboratories didn’t diagnose the cancer that was clearly there.
• A father of six dies in his hospital bed because the nursing staff ignored his symptoms of allergic reaction to morphine until it was too late
• An athletic young man loses his leg because of compartment syndrome that his doctors failed to diagnose in spite of obvious symptoms.
• Doctors ignore the signs of  pneumonia in a young woman until she was almost dead and she had to have disabling and painful surgery on both of her lungs.
• A dear grandmother died because her heart attack is misdiagnosed as indigestion.
• A brother dead of cardiac arrest just moments after emergency room doctors proclaimed him to be fine.

None of the doctors in these cases – not one – admitted their medical malpractice to the victims’ families. Only after we reviewed the records did the truth become clear. And still the doctors made us prove the medical malpractice before they would be accountable for the damage they had caused.

Failure to diagnose and misdiagnosis medical malpractice cases are difficult. The average lawyer has no business trying to review medical records to determine whether medical malpractice has occurred, because they won’t recognize medical malpractice when they see it.

Please contact us if you believe you or a loved one has been a victim of this malpractice. We have the expertise to find the truth – and to get the justice you and your family deserve.

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If you or a loved one have been seriously injured by a medical mistake, contact Polewski & Associates today.

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