You’ve been diagnosed with… Oh wait.

Say you’ve just been diagnosed with a serious disorder. You have undertaken every measure to alleviate the situation in accordance with your doctor’s orders, from treatment at the practice to at-home solutions. However, things apparently got worse and the nasty kicker comes during a return visit: the treatment was for a different ailment.

In this case, you may consider suing the practitioner for malpractice. Yet how can you push a misdiagnosis case to be airtight?

Claiming misdiagnosis in your malpractice claim requires a deeper understanding of the concept, which is something a skilled expert witness can help you with. A delayed diagnosis may be marked for liability if the health care professional did not fully account for the scope of the illness during the consultation. Tests may have been out of the question if the signs of the ailment in its advanced stages are evident.

Meanwhile, an “inaccurate diagnosis” can be cited if the medical practitioner indeed ran tests on the patient but the level of testing was insufficient or the results were not fully analyzed. A “failure to diagnose”, on the other hand, may be in order if the professional did not recommend testing to be carried out.

The respondents in a medical malpractice case do not have to be the practitioners themselves. In some instances, an assistant may be held culpable. Above all, your case should delve into how much damage the misdiagnosis inflicted upon you.