When doctors get it wrong, patients pay the price — sometimes with their lives.

Failure to Diagnose / Misdiagnosis

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Patients Suffer When Doctors Fail to Diagnose

The sooner you treat a serious disease the better your chances of survival. When a doctor fails to diagnose or misdiagnoses a health problem, the patient loses the chance to get early and effective treatment.

At Walsh, Knippen, Knight & Pollock, Chartered, in Wheaton, Illinois, our medical malpractice attorneys have a long and impressive record of success in cases involving failure to diagnose and misdiagnosis.

Doctors Miss Primary Diseases and Conditions They Caused

We represent clients whose physicians failed to diagnose diseases such as breast cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer, colon cancer and more. We also represent clients whose doctors failed to diagnose and treat conditions and complications caused by surgical malpractice or medication errors.

The Simple Answer, Not the Right One

In many cases of misdiagnosis, doctors fail to look for other possible explanations of a patient's symptoms. For example:

Heart burn, instead of heart attack or aortic dissection
Impetigo in an infant instead of Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV), which can be lethal within 72 hours
A sprain or bruise rather than compartment syndrome, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism.

Did your doctor fail to read an ultra sound or EKG, or fail to order a crucial test? Did a cancer misdiagnosis result in the premature death of a loved one?

Please contact our medical malpractice lawyers to discuss your case. The initial consultation is free and you will pay no attorney fees unless and until we obtain financial compensation in your malpractice claim.

A Sampling of Successful Cases:

$5.7 million: Failure to diagnose Group B Strep
$2.6 million: Failure to diagnose intestinal angina
$1.73 million: Failure to diagnose vitamin B12 deficiency illness
$1.1 million: Failure to diagnose colon cancer
$710,000: Failure to diagnose lung cancer

Anderson v. Thompson, MD Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.5 Million Settlement.

Doe v. SuperFlow Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $5.25 Million Settlement

Cann v. Life Products, Inc., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $10 Million Jury Verdict

Bechtol v. Campbell, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $7.3 Million Jury Verdict

Liporini v. Westlake Hospital, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $6.1 Million Award

Kilgore v. Heggen, Circuit Court of Will County, Illinois $5.7 Million Award

LoCoco v. Garbowski, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.6 Million Jury Verdict

Knauerhaze v. Allen, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.485 Million Jury Verdict

Krywokulski v. Wilbur, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.2 Million Award

Garcia v. Horwitz, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.775 Million Award

Compton v. Ubilluz, M.D. and Nour, M.D., Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $1.73 Million Jury Verdict

Enyart v. Rahn, MD, Circuit Court of DuPage Country, Illinois $1.550 Million Settlement

Janetis v. Christensen, M.D., Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.1 Million Award

Licastro v. Rowley, M.D., Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $710,000 Award

Murray v. R. A. Bright Construction Company, Circuit Court of Will County, Illinois $1.9 Million Award

Out of State Automobile Accident - Death, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.1 Million Award

Bus/Automobile Collision - Fracture & Hip Dislocation, Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $800,000 Award

Automobile/Van Collision - Herniated Disc, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $480,000 Award

Car/Truck Collision - Fractures, Circuit Court of Kane County, Illinois $420,000 Award

Truck/Automobile Collision - Spleen Injury, Circuit Court of Dupage County, Illinois $245,000 Award

Callahan v. Bernz-O-Matic, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $2.7425 Million Award

Rader v. City of Chicago, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.9 Million Award

Personal Injury : Boat : Leg Injury, Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois $1.5 Million Award

Wrongful Adoption, Circuit Court of DuPage County, Illinois $780,000 Settlement

Walsh, Knippen, Knight & Pollock, Chartered
2150 Manchester Road, Suite 200
Wheaton, IL 60187
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Phone: 630-462-1980
Facsimile: 630-462-1984

From our law offices in Wheaton, Illinois, the personal injury, medical malpractice and business litigation attorneys at Walsh, Knippen, Knight & Pollock, Chartered, represent clients throughout Chicagoland and west Chicago. Many clients come to us from Naperville, Bolingbrook, Plano, Yorkville, Schaumburg, Arlington Heights, Romeoville, Rockford, Aurora, Batavia, Evanston, Winnetka, Waukegan, Lake Forest, Barrington Hills, DeKalb, Freeport, Elgin, Springfield, Elmhurst, DuPage County, Cook County, Kane County, Will County, Kendall County, IL.