The mother of a man who died while in prison has the green light to pursue a lawsuit against the doctors she accuses of failing her son. She cannot include the state in the suit or the state’s Department of Corrections, however. This case of apparent wrongful death and alleged failure to diagnose did not occur in Missouri, but...
Read MoreAll too often we hear stories about the horrors of doctors failing to diagnose a disease resulting in the death of a patient. This can be particularly devastating in cases where cancer is the culprit, but doesn’t get caught in time. Such instances, if negligence can be shown, may represent situations in which a medical malpractice claim may be...
Read MoreA lot of people around Kansas City may be seeing red in February. It’s not because they are unusually angry. It so happens that February is designated as American Heart Month and red is the color associated with the initiative intended to raise awareness about heart disease. According to the American Heart Association, heart disease is the number one...
Read MoreOn behalf of Robert Kingsland of Dempsey Kingsland Osteen posted in Failure to Diagnose on Saturday, January 11, 2014. Even to someone on the outside of the medical field, it would seem as though diagnosing a disease or condition would be difficult. There are endless possibilities for why someone is feeling ill or in pain. Pinpointing the exact cause...
Read MoreAn Oregon couple has filed a lawsuit against a Portland-area hospital operated by the Kaiser Foundation after a woman was allegedly sent home with a prescription painkiller instead of being diagnosed with a catastrophic brain injury. They accuse the hospital and the responsible physicians of failing to perform appropriate tests that would have discovered her epidural hematoma before it...
Read MoreAn Illinois jury has awarded a family $15.55 million in compensation for a medical mistake that cost the life of a mother during a C-section in 2008. The father had sued MacNeal Hospital, an OB/Gyn at that hospital, the University of Chicago Medical Center and a maternal-fetal medicine specialist who works there after the two doctors failed to diagnose...
Read MoreWith college football season in full swing, there are many fans across Missouri who will be heading out to games and tuning in to watch them on TV. Football fans want to see big plays and hard hits, but it is important to keep in mind that these players can get seriously injured on the field. Keeping them safe...
Read MoreWhen Missourians have a serious medical condition, they want to know about the different treatment options that are available to them. They want information about the surgeons and the procedures that need to be performed. They will also look at success rates, to determine which facility will best allow them to completely recover. Recently, a new study examined what...
Read MoreIn 2009, a Maine man was told that the symptoms he had reported were those of Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Since the disease is extremely aggressive, when it’s caught in late stages it often results in death. The 47-year-old was told he only had months to live, so he took time off from his job and started trying to...
Read MoreA local man claims that a doctor, the founder of the clinic Health Centers of America in Kansas City, falsely diagnosed him with 18 different diseases, all before she bothered to examine him, take a medical history, run diagnostic tests, or indeed meet him at all. In addition to making false diagnoses ranging from insomnia to cortico-adrenal insufficiency, the...
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