This case involves a healthy female patient who presented with tingling in her legs and episodes of blurry vision and eye pain. The physician suspected multiple sclerosis and performed a CT. The CT read as negative and no further workup or…
This case involves a middle-aged male patient with a past medical history of diabetes and hypertension who presented to his local emergency department complaining of total body weakness. AÂ complete neurological examination was not performed despite the fact that the patient…
This case involves a 60-year-old female patient in Illinois who had a history of pancreatic cancer that had gone into remission some time before the incident in question. The patient presented to her general practice physician with complaints of generalized…
This case involves a middle aged female who began experiencing abdominal pain and presented to the emergency room in West Virginia. Labs were drawn and revealed moderately elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, low hemoglobin and hematocrit, and she was diagnosed with…
This case involves an elderly female patient in Wyoming who developed pancreatic cancer following an alleged delay in it’s diagnosis. The patient first presented to her primary care doctor with complaints of stomach pain, nausea, and cramps. She was treated conservatively…
This visual impairment case involves a female patient in Nevada who came into the emergency room after experiencing nausea, vomiting, and severe weight loss. Though she was given medication to combat her nausea, doctors decided to order a CAT scan…
This nuclear medicine case involves complications from the penetration of, and subsequent failure to detect, wood slivers in the patient’s left leg. The patient’s initial injury arose from a crash he suffered while participating in an amateur motocross event; during one…
A pathology expert witness advises on a case involving the delayed diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Plaintiff was admitted to a Pittsburgh hospital because of abdominal pain and acute weight loss. He was diagnosed with biliary pancreatitis with possible pancreatic pseudocyst. A…
This case involves a young woman with a family history of breast cancer who was referred to a medical center for evaluation of a lump in her right breast. At the facility, she underwent a mammogram and ultrasound, both of which were…
