Failure to diagnose is a serious type of medical malpractice that can cause a worsened condition or even death for victims. Victims of medical malpractice and their families need to be familiar with the legal protections available to them when they have been harmed by...
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Failure to diagnose preeclampsia can have deadly consequences
Pregnancy can be a wonderful and worrying time in a new mother’s life. While many women look forward to the days when they will meet their new children, some struggle with pregnancy-related health complications that make the months before deliver both difficult and...
Skin cancer and diagnostic errors
Summer weather means more time outdoors. It also means greater concerns for skin cancer. While individuals in Oregon and elsewhere take measures to protect their skin from harmful rays emitted from the sun, this does not always prevent skin cancer from occur. Thus,...
Nationwide outbreak could cause local misdiagnoses
For our readers who have been watching the news recently, they may have heard about the national Salmonella outbreak. This outbreak has hit Oregon especially hard as it has at least 42 of the nation’s 125 patients, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...
Misdiagnoses and inaccessible care plague college health centers
As any parent can attest, the health and wellbeing of their child is of the upmost importance. As such, the availability and reliability of their child’s college health center can be a key consideration to choosing a college in Oregon or across the country....
Which cancers are most difficult to detect?
Some cancers are certainly easier to detect than others. In some senses, this makes these cancers "less" deadly. They can still be just as fatal if nothing is done, of course, but the fact that you can spot them early and get started with treatment means that your...
If a pimple won’t clear up, it could be cancer
Many times, when a doctor fails to diagnose something as dangerous as cancer, the issue isn't that the doctor doesn't see anything at all. It's just that they believe it is not dangerous or they diagnose it as a different condition.Of course, this type of...
Doctors tend to miss these 3 cancers
A failure to diagnose cancer can be deadly. Much of the time, doctors want to start treatment as soon as possible, and recovery rates are far better for those who get treatment in the early stages than for those who do not get it until the later stages. If a doctor...
Having one melanoma increases risks for a second
If you get diagnosed with melanoma — a dangerous type of skin cancer — you should know that the diagnosis makes it more likely that you will have a second spot. This is why many doctors like to do a full-body exam after they find one suspicious spot.For...
Google AI finds breast cancer that doctors miss
You know that detecting breast cancer as early as possible is often the key to treatment and higher survival rates. So, who should you have examine those scans to see if you have cancer or not? You may assume it should be your doctor, but new studies have found that...