Diagnostic Errors

Good documentation practices and clear communication between physicians influenced the jury’s decision in this case.

The defense argued that the patient had shingles outbreak when he saw the defendant physician and later developed necrotizing fasciitis.

The jury found it was reasonable for the defendant physician to ascribe the patient’s back pain to mechanical causes

An eight-year-old boy came with his mother to a local ED with pain in his lower left leg from a fall.

A 43-year-old woman with left leg pain came to an orthopedic surgeon

A patient is injured when the wrong concentration of acetic acid is used.

An eight-year-old girl was brought to the ED with a groin injury from a bicycle accident

The patient claimed that the physician told him that the rectal bleeding was due to his diverticulosis and was not life threatening.