Medical misdiagnosis and failure to diagnose are among the most common forms of medical malpractice. Patients trust their doctors, nurses, physician’s assistants, lab staff, and hospitals to investigate symptoms properly, order appropriate tests, interpret results accurately, and diagnose serious conditions before they become more dangerous. When that does not happen in Brooklyn, Staten Island, or elsewhere in New York City, the delay can turn a treatable condition into a life-threatening or permanently disabling one.

Failure to diagnose may happen because a provider overlooks symptoms, ignores warning signs, fails to order needed tests, misreads diagnostic scans, mishandles lab work, or follows the wrong diagnosis while the real condition worsens. These cases often involve delayed diagnosis of cancer, failure to diagnose heart attack, pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, spinal cord injury, aortic dissection, seizures, infection, organ perforation, nerve injury, or other urgent medical conditions. Misdiagnosis can also involve incorrect readings of X-rays, MRIs, mammograms, pathology slides, and other diagnostic materials.

A missed or delayed diagnosis can cause devastating harm by delaying treatment during the very period when proper care would have made the greatest difference. Our attorneys investigate medical records, diagnostic imaging, lab reports, consultation notes, hospital records, pathology, timeline evidence, and expert review to determine whether a provider failed to act within accepted standards of care and whether that failure worsened the patient’s prognosis, caused additional injury, or led to death.

We pursue compensation for added medical expenses, lost wages, future earning capacity, pain and suffering, disability, and wrongful death damages where a delayed or missed diagnosis leads to a fatal outcome. We never charge to investigate your case, and we handle failure to diagnose claims on a contingency fee basis, so you pay no legal fee unless we recover compensation for you.