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On Nov 25th 2016 I went to the ER with back pain. The ER doctor said it was "sciatic", no imaging of my back was taken. I was sent home with pain and muscle relaxer pills. Three days later, while at work, I was jarred and the pain became so bad I could hardly walk. The next morning, I could not walk, had foot drop, and found that my L5 disk was pushing out so far it was crushing my spinal cord. Can the ER doctor be held responsible, for not taking any images? I feel, if he had, I could have been made aware of the disk starting to push out and been able to avoid the situation I am in now
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Possibly - but you described a NEW impact at work so it will be a complicated issue of work comp v. med mal. You need to retain a lawyer to address this ASAP.
Answered on May 22nd, 2017 at 7:39 AM
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