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Failure to Diagnose. Delayed Diagnosis. Misdiagnosis. We Pursue Accountability.
When a doctor fails to recognize your condition, takes too long to diagnose it, or diagnoses the wrong illness entirely — the consequences can be devastating. Missed cancer diagnoses. Untreated heart attacks. Infections left to become sepsis. If a competent physician would have made the correct diagnosis and your doctor did not, you may have a medical malpractice claim. No fee unless we win.
Failure to Diagnose, Delayed Diagnosis & Misdiagnosis — Your Legal Rights
Diagnostic errors are the most common form of medical malpractice in the United States, accounting for approximately 40% of all malpractice claims. They fall into three categories: failure to diagnose (a condition is never identified), delayed diagnosis (correctly identified eventually, but too late), and misdiagnosis (incorrectly attributed to the wrong condition).
In each case, the legal standard is the same: would a reasonably competent physician in the same specialty, presented with the same patient presentation, have made the correct diagnosis? If yes — and your physician did not — the failure may constitute malpractice, provided it caused measurable harm.
Cancer misdiagnosis: Breast, colon, lung, cervical, and melanoma cancers are among the most commonly misdiagnosed conditions in Florida. Delayed cancer diagnosis often converts a curable Stage I or II cancer into an advanced, life-threatening Stage III or IV. The difference in prognosis — and in damages — is enormous.
Conditions Frequently Misdiagnosed
David Shiner and his team have represented medical malpractice victims throughout Boca Raton and Palm Beach County, recovering compensation for patients harmed by preventable medical errors. Call (561) 777-7700 for a free, confidential consultation.
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Common Types of Diagnostic Errors — Shiner Law Group Handles Them All
Failure to Order Appropriate Tests
A physician dismisses symptoms without ordering the diagnostic tests — imaging, biopsy, bloodwork, or specialist referral — that would have revealed the condition. Common in cancer cases where patients present with warning signs.
Ignoring Patient Complaints
Dismissing patient-reported symptoms as anxiety, stress, or normal aging when those symptoms were objective indicators of a serious underlying condition. Particularly common with female patients and minority patients reporting cardiac symptoms.
Delayed Cancer Diagnosis
Missing cancer on imaging, failing to follow up abnormal test results, or not biopsying suspicious tissue. The delay from Stage I to Stage IV cancer can be the difference between curative treatment and terminal illness.
Misreading Lab Results or Imaging
Radiology misreads, pathology errors, and laboratory result interpretation failures. A radiologist who misses a shadow on a chest X-ray or a pathologist who misreads a biopsy slide can derail an entire diagnostic course.
Wrong Condition Diagnosed
Attributing symptoms to the wrong illness — diagnosing GERD when a patient is having a heart attack, diagnosing a headache as migraine when it is a subarachnoid hemorrhage, or diagnosing appendicitis symptoms as gastrointestinal inflammation.
Failure to Refer to a Specialist
A general practitioner fails to refer a patient presenting with specialist-level symptoms to the appropriate specialist, causing a delay in diagnosis that allows the condition to progress.
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Why Boca Raton Patients Choose Shiner Law Group for Misdiagnosis / Delayed Diagnosis Cases
Board-Certified Medical Experts
Every misdiagnosis / delayed diagnosis case requires a qualified expert in the relevant specialty. We maintain a network of board-certified experts who review your records and provide the expert opinion Florida law requires before filing suit.
Immediate Record Preservation
Medical records can be amended — and institutional memory fades. We act immediately to obtain, preserve, and secure all relevant records before key evidence is lost or altered.
No Fee Unless We Win
We advance all expert fees, case costs, and filing expenses — zero upfront cost to you. Our fee comes from the recovery, which means our interest is identical to yours: maximum compensation.
Proven Results
10.0 Superb AVVO · Best Lawyers in America® · Super Lawyers® · AV Preeminent. Millions recovered for Boca Raton malpractice victims through negotiation and trial.