Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer Lawyers
For over 30 years Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald has handled hundreds of failure to diagnose / medical malpractice cases and has achieved many substantial verdicts and settlements, including a $94 million dollar jury verdict--the largest medical malpractice verdict in the United States in 2002 (Lawyers Weekly).
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The failure to diagnose breast cancer is a form of medical malpractice. With certain medical conditions the delay can allow the disease to progress into stages that are irreparable.
Failure to diagnose breast cancer can include cases involving the following:
- A doctor does not have a mammogram performed after the patient states she felt a lump in her breast;
- A doctor does not have a mammogram performed after the doctor feels a lump in the breast;
- A doctor fails to do follow-up when the doctor feels a lump in the patient's breast and sends her for a mammogram, which comes back negative (15% of mammograms are false negative);
- A radiologist makes an error in reading the mammogram;
- A surgeon performs a negligent biopsy of a suspicious mass in a breast, for example, taking the biopsy in the wrong place.
Failure to diagnose breast cancer can be inclusive of a delayed diagnosis as well. Especially in instances like cancer, the failure to diagnosis the disease in a timely manner can make the difference between life and death. If you or a family member has been harmed due to a healthcare professional's failure to diagnose breast cancer, please contact us. The failure to diagnose breast cancer is a negligent action. Patients whose cancer has progressed unnecessarily should be compensated for the resulting financial burdens, pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of quality of life, and shortened life span.
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The jury verdicts reported on this site have, in many cases, been reduced by the Appellate Court or by post trial motions. This is common with jury verdicts. Prior results cannot guarantee or predict a similar outcome on any future matter.
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Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald, P.C. is a firm of trial lawyers based in New York with a national practice. We are capable of representing clients in every state of the United States. In New York our trial attorneys appear daily in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens and Staten Island (Richmond County). We also appear regularly in the counties of Westchester (Yonkers), Suffolk, Nassau and Orange. We have of counsel attorneys covering Rockland County, Dutchess County, Albany, Buffalo and all other New York counties. In New Jersey we have of counsel attorneys covering the counties of Passaic, Bergen, Hudson, Essex, (Newark), Union, Middlesex, Somerset, Mercer, (Trenton) Camden and Monmouth. We also have a network of of counsel attorneys with whom we work throughout the United States.
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