Delay In Diagnosis
Watch the video below to learn more about delay in diagnosis, failure to diagnose cancer, and failure to diagnose diabetes cases.
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Video Transcript
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0:00 Intro
0:21 Delayed Diagnosis
The single most common cause of medical negligence that leads to catastrophic injury is the failure to diagnose. There are failure to diagnose cancer and failure to diagnose diabetes and much more.
0:21 Delayed Diagnosis
It occurs in a whole variety of clinical scenarios. It’s failure to diagnose cancer, that’s an obvious one. Failure to diagnose heart attacks, that’s common. Failure to diagnose strokes or blood clots going to the lungs, pulmonary emboli. Failure to diagnose infections of all kinds.
One of the most tragic ones we see are failure to diagnose meningitis in children results in catastrophic injury, often with death.
Almost every condition is more easily treated when it’s caught early in its course rather than in its end-stage.
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