Receiving the incorrect diagnosis could turn your whole world upside down. It could send anyone into a spiral of doubt and despair that may be difficult to recover from. When diagnostic errors provide false or incorrect results, it's common to lose faith in the health care practitioner or the entire health care system. Repairing that trust may take some time, and many patients choose to submit a malpractice claim.
Although the claim can't take back the misdiagnosis and the emotional trauma it caused, it provides comfort for the patients and their loved ones. Should the patient receive a settlement, the money could minimize the diagnostic errors' health impacts.
Here are a few of the areas of health that these errors may affect:
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Loss Of Life
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Unnecessary Amputations
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Psychological Impact
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