Massachusetts Personal Injury Lawyer Blog

One Way to Tell a Misdiagnosis

No one likes the thought of a misdiagnosis; however, some patients never really know that they weren't properly diagnosed in the first place. Unfortunately it is usually during an autopsy when most misdiagnoses are finally revealed.

When an autopsy is conducted, there are clinical findings. Doctors can compare the autopsy report with the diagnoses the patient has in their medical chart to see if they agree. If they don't match up, then a misdiagnosis has occurred.

Unfortunately, information from recent studies indicate that the incidences of autopsies are decreasing, which will limit the opportunity to measure misdiagnosis. It is important however, to stop misdiagnoses from occurring before someone ends up in the morgue.

Visit our library to learn more about misdiagnoses and the dangers of failure to diagnose a disease.

Massachusetts personal injury lawyer, Thomas M. Kiley, is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and is a respected member of the American Association for Justice and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

The personal injury attorneys at the Law Office of Kiley Law Group are dedicated to helping the victims of:

• Car, motorcycle, truck, van or bus accident
• Single vehicle accidents such as SUV or 15-passenger van rollovers
• Pedestrian accidents such as a hit and run
• Defective products such as ineffective airbags or seatbelts, prescription drugs with unpublicized side-effects, or hazardous children's toys
• Child injury and child abuse such as negligence
• Birth injuries such as trauma during labor or cerebral palsy

We Serve Clients Across the State of Massachusetts
The firm's headquarters are in Andover, MA and serves the following cities in Massachusetts: Boston, Danvers, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Methuen, Middleton, Reading, and Salem, MA and Salem, New Hampshire.