Unfortunately, we have handled many, many failure to diagnose cancer cases. Most often, these cases fall into three categories: failure to order tests, failure to see what ought to be seen, and failure to follow up on test results. The first two types are what often turn out to be "differential diagnosis" cases. Every doctor who sees a patient must come to a "differential diagnosis", which is a fancy way of saying that a doctor must determine the cause of the patients symptoms. This is done by putting the possible causes of the symptoms in order, often of their likelihood and severity, and then doing tests or analysis to "rule out" each possibility until a cause is found. Unfortunately, doctors who see many patients in a day will sometimes get lazy, and fail to perform a true differential, with sometimes disastrous consequences. For instance, we successfully obtained a verdict on behalf of a patient who was a smoker for thirty years before quitting, and she showed up at the doctors office with a persistent hacking cough. It was allergy season, so the doctor diagnosed allergies, without performing the requisite tests to "rule out" lung cancer. Unfortunately, it was indeed lung cancer, which wasn't diagnosed until many months later (by a different doctor), when it was too late. The third category is self explanatory - we have successfully handled failure to diagnose cancer cases involving everything from a physician's failure to order follow up tests for cancer where a patient's iron count was too low, to a physcian's failure to simply read a chest xray report that stated that cancer might be present.

Over his career, Mark has developed and cultivated relationships which expert physicians in almost every specialty imaginable all over the country, from the very finest ivy league medical schools to the most respected hospitals, from coast to coast, who are willing to review potential medical malpractice cases and testify in a victim's favor where the facts warrant.

Medical malpractice litigation is difficult - jurors often start out believing that a victim should not be compensated because doctors don't intend to cause harm. Of course, that is not the law, any more than it would be fair to not hold a previously perfect driver responsible for his actions if he inadvertently runs a red light and injures a pedestrian. Mark personally handles your medical malpractice case - by knowing you and understanding your plight, we are better able to communicate the justness of your cause and the severity of the injury that you so needlessly suffered to a jury, or to insurance company representatives at a mediation.

Because we have been successful in the past, we have the resources to fight the fight the way it needs to be fought. If you seek responsible, caring, and yet tenacious lawyers to fight for you, we'd like to help. Our track record proves that we can.

Free Consultations with us, and you never pay us anything unless we recover compensation for you.   We'd love to try to help you - consultations about your case with Mark and Rhonda are absolutely free. Call Weinstein & Weinstein, P.A., at (954) 389-8150 or (239) 793-3331 to speak with Mark or Rhonda about your case, or you can contact us here.