Misdiagnosis and Failure to Diagnose Lawyer

Devastating diseases such as cancer, meningitis, and others wreak havoc on their victims and their families. Losing one's health, and possibly one's life, to such diseases is a difficult road to travel, to say the least. The pain can become even greater when it is discovered that the reason the disease got out of control was the misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose the disease in time to treat it successfully.

Archuleta, Alsaffar & Higginbotham focuses its practice on Military and Veterans Administration misdiagnosis and failure to diagnose cases. Contact Archuleta, Alsaffar & Higginbotham to discuss the possibility of a failure to diagnose or misdiagnosis case.

Cases of misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose may happen in many ways. One of the most common causes: when the patient was seen by several different health care providers and there was a lack of communication between those providers. It can also happen because of a failure to perform the correct tests or when testing is misread or not reported properly.

In a typical case of failure to diagnose or misdiagnosis, the patient may have consulted doctors several times. The patient may have undergone tests and even received treatment for the wrong diagnosis. Sometimes the patient's complaints were not taken seriously. The patient then learns that the correct and often terrible diagnosis was never even considered, or was considered and not ruled out properly. Sometimes, the correct diagnosis is learned on the first visit to a non-military or non-VA health care provider.

Victims of misdiagnosis or failure often deserve compensation for their injuries as a result of the misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose. At Archuleta, Alsaffar & Higginbotham we help people win their misdiagnosis and failure to diagnose claims against the U.S. Government.

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