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How A Diagnosis Of Advanced Colon Cancer May Result in A Medical Malpractice Case

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

The second largest number of cancer fatalities is from colon cancer.. Every year, around 48,000 men and women will pass away due to colon cancer. Many of these deaths could be prevented with early diagnosis ...

Doctor - Dismissing Abnormal Prostate Cancer Test Results Could Lead To Malpractice Claim

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

There are tests that enable the detection of some types of cancers, for instance prostate cancer, prior to the time the patient shows symptoms. The thought is to detect the cancer in the beginning stages ...

How Missing Symptoms Of Colon Cancer Might Lead to A Medical Negligence Case

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

Patient: "Doctor, I notice blood in my stool when I go to the bathroom." Doctor: "Don’t worry about it, you most likely merely have hemorrhoids." Tragically, some time afterwards this patient learns that the bleeding ...

Holdup By Doctor And Nurse Leads To Infant's Brain Damage

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

Any of several complications may cause an unborn baby to have his or her oxygen supply jeopardized, causing the baby to be in fetal distress. In the event that the baby does not receive enough ...

Jury Gives $2.75 Million To Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patient Whose Physician Failed To Do Requested Testing

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

Prostate cancer strikes African-American males earlier and often more aggressively from the rest of the population. Males of African-American descent are at higher risk of having prostate cancer at an earlier age. For this reason, ...

Envision Being Diagnosed With Metastatic Cancer And Your Doctor Did Not Inform You Of Abnormal Test Results

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

Imagine that your doctor physically examines your prostate gland for any signs of potential cancer including an enlargement or a hardening of the prostate and if there are any growths palpable on the gland. Imagine ...

Parents Pursue Claim Against Doctor And Nurse Alleging Their Child Died While In Fetal Distress

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

As fetal distress is a dangerous problem in pregnancy that many times involves a diminished oxygen supply to the unborn baby. Thus, if fetal distress is observed measures need to be taken right away to ...

Claim Alleging Infant Brain Damage Due to Pediatrician's Delay In Diagnosing And Treating Group B Strep

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

A mother who is a carrier of the group b streptococcus can transfer the bacteria to her child during labor even if the mother does not present any symptoms. Studies have shown that between 15% ...

Court Permits $450,000 Of Jury Verdict For Woman Badly Injured In Accident While Riding Her Bicycle

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

So you were injured in a motor vehicle accident. Unfortunately you were partly, or maybe even, mostly to blame for causing the accident. Will you be able to recover for your injuries? And if you ...

Pedestrian Endures Multiple Leg Factures And Reaches Settlement With Driver For $1,200,000

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

There are numerous ways in which drivers can become distracted, confused or disoriented. The difficulty, clearly, is that they control a multi-ton piece of machinery that can bring about disastrous harm, especially to pedestrians. And ...

Patient Dies After 6 Year Holdup In The Detection Of Her Colon Cancer Allows It To Metastasize

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

With regards to colon cancer there are particular risk factors which ought to lead a physician to check the patient for the presence of the cancer. The primary procedure employed by doctors to check for ...

When Physicians Do Not Take Action After PSA Results Reveal The Possibility Of Prostate Cancer

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

Male patients are likely to possess a lack of understanding of prostate cancer, their own chances for the cancer, and the ways in which they can figure out whether they have prostate cancer. Many male ...

How Malpractice Case May Follow A Delayed Diagnosis Of Colon Cancer

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

Being told one has colon cancer tends to bring up worry in nearly all of people. It can hence feel very reassuring to hear your physician say that you just have hemorrhoids. That there is ...

Several Doctors Take Several Years To Diagnose Man's Prostate Cancer Even After Test Results

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

When multiple physicians take part in the care a patient it may be critical for them to relay important diagnostic results as well as follow-up and treatment advice to the patient and to the other ...

If Physician's Negligence Ends in Erb's Palsy Injury To Baby Physician May Be Liable For Malpractice

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

Children in some cases suffer from a birth injury referred to as Erb's palsy. It sometimes leaves the baby's arm limp. An Erb's palsy injury may occur in the course of childbirth if too much ...

Doctor's Failure To Diagnose Infant For Group B Strep Brings About $6,150,000 Settlement

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

If a baby with a Group B Strep infection is not treated or improperly treated the baby could suffer lifelong serious disabilities. A Group B Strep infection in a baby can become pneumonia, sepsis, or ...

$300,000 Jury Verdict For Victim Severe Hurt In Vehicle Accident

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

When handling a vehicle accident claim, it can in some cases be necessary to be able to show that the defendant's story is not truthful. Sometimes all an attorney has to do so as to ...

Example Of Case In Which Insurance Company Made Low Ball Offer To Seriously Injured Victim

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

It is worth examining motor vehicle accident cases where insurance companies chose to make offers well below the amount ultimately recovered by the plaintiff at trial. These lawsuits show the factors that might come into ...

Hurt Victims Often Find Themselves Held Responsible For The Accident By The Driver

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

Accidents occur. That is also true for accidents involving motor vehicles and pedestrians. Attorneys skilled in handling pedestrian injury claims are knowledgeable about not only the mechanics of the accident, the insurance issues, and the ...

Valuing Vehicle Accident Cases Involving Broken Bones And Other Considerable Injuries

By Joseph Hernandez · 13 years ago

Bone fractures are not atypical in high impact motor vehicle accidents. And with bone fractures commonly come multiple other injuries that can result in permanent disabilities. In what follows we analyze two published examples which ...