When thinking about a claim for medical negligence it is natural to think only about the particular treatment you have received and the complications and/ or injuries this has caused.
It is, however, vitally important in situations such as these to step back and consider each of the various steps involved in your care.
Diagnosis
In the first instance it is important to consider if your health care professional has failed to diagnose your particular condition properly? What would happen if you received the wrong diagnosis, a delayed diagnosis or no diagnosis at all and the subsequent treatment left your original condition untreated and therefore continued to worsen and perhaps became incurable as a result?
In the first instance it is important to consider if your health care professional has failed to diagnose your particular condition properly? What would happen if you received the wrong diagnosis, a delayed diagnosis or no diagnosis at all and the subsequent treatment left your original condition untreated and therefore continued to worsen and perhaps became incurable as a result?
This is unfortunately true in cancer cases such as the recent cervical cancer scare last year which saw a large number of ladies not being diagnosed properly and therefore did not receive the treatment they required in order to prevent their cancer from progressing.
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