Is hard to tell you whether you have a viable malpractice case for failure to diagnose a brain aneurysm without looking at the pertinent medical records. If you walked into a physician's office and complained of shoulder pain with finger numbness, a brain aneurysm is not the first diagnosis to comes to mind. If you did complain of headaches, migraines and high blood pressure to the same physicians that's a different question. It really depends on what your overall presentation was when you visited the physicians. Did you emphasized the shoulder pain and finger numbness and merely mention the other symptoms as part of your past patient history? If headaches were not a prominent part of your complaints, I do not think an expert would support the case.
Also, you only have a viable malpractice case if (a) the delay in diagnosis caused you harm, and (b) the harm was substantial and will result in permanent problems.
Click here for an article that discusses the three main questions I ask when deciding whether to investigate a potential medical malpractice case, which discusses the issue of whether a case is financially viable.
Answered on Jun 08th, 2012 at 1:36 PM