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Failure to Timely Diagnose Results in $2.175 Million Settlement for Family's Loss

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The failure to timely diagnose a serious illness or condition is a grave medical error with potentially devastating consequences. Delayed diagnoses can lead to the progression of diseases, missed opportunities for effective treatment, and, in the worst cases, preventable deaths.

Client’s case

Failure to Timely Diagnose and Treat a Child’s Brain Tumor. This tragic matter involved the alleged failure to order an MRI of the brain made worse by miscommunication between a pediatrician and pediatric neurologist resulting in an eight-month delay in diagnosing a 5-year-old’s brain tumor.  Unfortunately, after two surgeries to remove the tumor, it reoccurred and eventually took the life 5 years later of this brave and beautiful child.  We never gave up, persisting even after defense cancer experts and the child’s brain surgeon informed that even with a prompt diagnosis the tumor was a rare one and may have reoccurred whether or not there was a timely diagnosis.

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