Misdiagnosis

Imagine this scenario — you've been diagnosed with cancer of the prostrate. You're lying on a gurney about to be wheeled into the operating room to have your prostate excised. The sedative is already flowing in your veins from the IV drip. Just before you are...

When you go to the emergency room or your doctor with a medical complaint, you should expect that your symptoms are taken seriously and given enough attention. You know what is right and what is normal for your body, so it is important that you are listened to. When...

If you have recently been diagnosed with Lyme disease after spending a long time seeking a diagnosis of your debilitating symptoms, it likely comes as a relief that you finally have a name for the cause of your suffering. However, you probably also feel frustrated...

When you are seeking medical treatment or are in a hospital, you naturally want to trust that you are in good hands. While doctors are usually competent and highly professional individuals that always put the needs of their patients first, there can be times when a...

Many autoimmune diseases can take years to be correctly diagnosed. When there is a failure to diagnose a condition, it means that a patient suffers unnecessarily. Their condition can worsen significantly, because they are not getting the treatment that they...

When you have symptoms of an illness that you believe is severe, it is important that you get seen by a doctor as soon as possible so that they can treat you and so that you can recover as quickly as possible. However, when you have a long wait before you can see a...

Although Lyme disease has only become part of regular discussion in recent years, it is a surprisingly common and a devastating disease. It occurs four times more often than HIV infections, and the amount of people that have been misdiagnosed is concerning to medical...

As patients, we have little option but to trust our doctors and believe that their advice or diagnosis is correct. However, even though doctors are extremely well trained, human error at some point is inevitable. Although it is inevitable, it is not acceptable for a...

Failed diagnosis and failure to treat medical conditions can often have tragic consequences. It can also come as a great shock to the loved ones of those affected, because we tend to trust doctors and medical practitioners to a strong degree. When doctors and surgeons...