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Imagine having terrible pain
in your leg and going to the doctor who tells you to take some medication and
get some rest. When that doesn’t work
you go to physical therapy and then a new medication and more rest. You follow these instructions and feel worse
in the months that follow. Finally, you
wait for another appointment with a doctor a friend recommends who recommends
another doctor who sends you to a specialist.
It takes a few months to get
that appointment, work through insurance and finally, a full 18 months
following the original misdiagnosis, you get the correct diagnosis that the
cancer in your leg has spread throughout your body. You begin months of treatment concentrating
only on saving yourself but it’s too late.
Eight months after the correct diagnosis you find that the treatment, as
well as the original diagnosis has been all wrong. Now, three years after the incorrect diagnosis, you
succumb to the cancer leaving your three children under ten years old with no
mother.
Your grieving family doesn’t
want to sue but they want answers. No
one answers their questions. The doctors or medical practice. Not even the hospital who cared for you at
the very end. No one responds to phone
calls or to letters requesting a meeting.
Now, you need to search for a lawyer and can’t find one. Read why here:
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