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Failure to examine negligence claims
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Your GP plays an important role in the provision of healthcare and timely diagnosis and treatment. Your GP requires important information such as your medical history and your symptoms in order to identify potential differential diagnoses and the nature of diagnostic investigations required to make a diagnosis. A thorough physical examination is crucial as it provides critical clinical information to your GP that goes hand-in-hand with your complaints and symptoms. A GP can exclude certain conditions by performing a thorough physical examination. A GP can also make a diagnosis by combining the information obtained from you in relation to your symptoms and the findings on physical examination. In the absence of an adequate physical examination, a GP will not have the benefit of assessing the entire clinical picture and this may lead to misdiagnosis or a delay in diagnosis and treatment.
If you are living with a poor health outcome as a result of a GP failing to physically examine you, you may have a medical negligence claim. Garling and Co. Lawyers are here to assist you and support you through the journey to achieving reasonable compensation.
If a doctor’s failure to examine a patient leads to a misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis, which in turn causes harm to the patient that would not otherwise have occurred, a court may find that the lack of a timely or thorough physical examination was an act of negligence. In other words, if the early examination, diagnosis and treatment of the condition would have prevented the harm, there may be grounds for a medical negligence claim.
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Failure to examine Frequently Asked Questions
This is a claim for compensation arising from injuries sustained by a patient due to a misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of a condition as a result of a doctor’s failure to perform a thorough physical examination. The patient usually suffers injury due to a lack of, or delay in, receiving appropriate treatment because of misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis.
If you are living with injuries or a poor prognosis caused by a delay in diagnosis and treatment and you are unsure if this is the result of your doctor’s failure to examine you, you should promptly seek legal advice. An experienced medical negligence solicitor will be able to share their experience with you and investigate a potential claim on your behalf.
The most common types of harm that can result from a doctor’s failure to examine are as follows:
- A delay in receiving appropriate treatment
- Deterioration or worsening of symptoms
- Evolution or progression of a disease or condition
- Metastasis in cancer cases
- Reduced treatment options
- Reduced effectiveness of treatment options
- Poor prognosis
- Reduced life expectancy
- Death
Ordinarily, you must commence formal legal proceedings within three years of the time at which the alleged negligence occurred. This is subject to the time that you discovered, or ought to have discovered, that you have sustained an injury, the injury is the fault of the doctor and the injury is worth suing over.
Evidence will be required to mount a claim for injury arising from a failure to examine. This evidence includes a copy of the relevant medical records, lay evidence such as your statement and statements from any witnesses. Evidence will also be procured by your lawyer from suitably qualified medical experts. For example, expert evidence from a GP is required in a claim against a GP for failure to perform a physical examination.
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