Failure to Diagnose Claim is a Medical Malpractice Claim where a doctor just misses a diagnosis in their patient. Patient may have certain symptoms or conditions that should lead a doctor to a reasonable diagnosis and often times a doctor may miss that diagnoses. That’s basis for Medical Malpractice Claim.
An error in diagnosis or a failure to diagnose is when a physician has enough information to make the appropriate diagnosis, but for whatever reason does not recognize significant diagnostic studies or clinical presentations where they can put together a diagnosis. And because of that delay, a patient may suffer some real harm. That’s what...