Being diagnosed with cancer is a life-changing experience. Luckily, with the benefits of modern medical science, many forms of this disease can be effectively treated when caught early enough. However, if your doctors misdiagnose you, your condition may worsen to the point of causing you immense and irreversible harm.
This type of medical malpractice can be legally and personally difficult to sue over, which is why it is important to get help with your claim from capable and compassionate failure-to-diagnose attorneys. A Pennsylvania cancer misdiagnosis lawyer from The Weitz Firm, LLC, will handle your case with experienced professionalism. Our team is dedicated to getting you the best possible resolution to your lawsuit or settlement demand.
Unfortunately, one of the main reasons why misdiagnosis is so hard to file a civil suit over is that cancer can be extremely tricky to diagnose correctly. People may experience very different symptoms when dealing with ostensibly the same type of cancer, and certain forms of this disease are much rarer than others, which means even diligent doctors may assume certain symptoms are more likely a sign of a less serious condition and fail to properly diagnose the actual condition as a result.
Despite that, every physician is expected to meet the same standard of care with all their patients that any other equally qualified doctor would provide to the same patient under the same working conditions. This means if you can prove your doctor misdiagnosed your cancer specifically by acting in a way another doctor with the same skills and experience would not have acted—for example, by blatantly ignoring symptoms or performing diagnostic tests incorrectly—then you may have grounds for a lawsuit. Our Pennsylvania cancer misdiagnosis attorneys can help you pursue a claim.
Of course, civil juries—let alone private insurance companies representing doctors and hospitals—will not award you compensation until you make a compelling case that a preventable error by a specific doctor was the primary reason your cancer worsened. In addition, you cannot even start a lawsuit for malpractice unless you have a certificate of merit to submit alongside your initial complaint.
As a cancer misdiagnosis lawyer in Pennsylvania can explain in more detail during a free initial consultation, state law requires prospective malpractice plaintiffs to get formal support for their claim from at least one qualified medical expert, meaning someone with knowledge and experience relevant to your specific case. This medical expert must review all your evidence and then, in a written statement signed under oath, affirm that they believe your case has merit and that malpractice more than likely led to your injuries.
Money cannot erase the physical and psychological effects of untreated cancer, nor is a malpractice lawsuit intended to accomplish that. What a cancer misdiagnosis claim is designed to do is stabilize your family’s finances and maximize your quality of life despite the immense harm you have unfairly sustained.
Working with a Pennsylvania cancer misdiagnosis lawyer from The Weitz Firm, LLC will make a huge difference in how effectively you can demand civil restitution. Call today to learn more.
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