The Dr. Lawyer Law Group
Phoenix Failure to Diagnose Malpractice Lawyers
When a missed diagnosis changes what comes next.
A missed or delayed diagnosis can leave a patient facing difficult consequences. Dr. Shah helps review the medical decisions and the harm you believe resulted.
No fees until we win.
A medical perspective
Understanding the signs that were available.
Dr. Zaheer Shah has worked in hospitals and emergency rooms. He understands the importance of evaluating symptoms, reviewing medical information, and responding to a patient’s condition.
In a failure to diagnose case, the review considers what providers knew or should have recognized at the time. Dr. Shah brings his medical knowledge to examining those questions and explaining the impact of a delay.
Diagnostic concerns
Taking a closer look at a missed or delayed diagnosis.
The concerns described in the firm’s work include missed or delayed diagnoses of cancer, heart attacks, strokes, brain aneurysms, compartment syndrome, and other illnesses or injuries.
The symptoms and history
What did the patient report, and what information was available during the evaluation?
The testing and follow-up
What tests were considered or performed, and how were the results reviewed and communicated?
The effect of the delay
How did the missed or delayed diagnosis affect the treatment received and the patient’s outcome?
Patient safety background: AHRQ PSNet: Diagnostic Error.
Evaluating a claim
The diagnosis and the injury must be connected.
A diagnosis made later than expected does not automatically establish malpractice. A claim needs evidence that the provider departed from the applicable standard of care and that this failure caused injury.
Medical records and the timeline of care help distinguish the effects of the underlying condition from harm associated with a failure to diagnose. That distinction is central to reviewing a potential case.
Arizona law: A.R.S. § 12-563.
Your next step
Tell us what you believe was missed.
Share the symptoms that led you to seek care, when the diagnosis was eventually made, and how the delay affected you or your loved one. We can discuss the records and information needed to review your concerns.
If the concern involves what happened after a condition was identified, our failure to treat page may also be helpful.
Start with a conversation
Let’s discuss
the missed diagnosis.
Tell us about the care you received and the diagnosis that followed. We can help you understand how a potential claim may be reviewed.
Free case strategy session
(602) 680-7300No fees until we win.