QUESTION
I need a lawyer for a malpractise case.
Asked on Jun 21st, 2013 on Medical Malpractice - California
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In febuary of this year I was taken to the county hospoital for chest pain and breathing problems. I was sent home after a couple hours and tests diagnosed with broncitis. They prescribed me cough medicine and said I was fine. That same night I woke up unable to breathe and chest pains again and taken to a diffrent hospital. After an hour and a half I was told I was having a heart attache the entire time and lucky I came in when I did. I exsplained my visit at the county hospital and was told the tests for the symptoms was not taken and is mandatory. I could of died in my sleep. I am 36 yhears old and the thought of loosing my life due to neglegence on the doctors behalf has me afraid and upset. I went through heart surjery and a week stay in the icu. My has changed dramatically and knowing and hearing the sooner these conditions are diagnosed the better chances I had of not having serjuries bothers me and is unfair. The day after my heart surjery my breast implant popped.
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Luckily you were soon diagnosed appropriately and the condition was dealt with. It is unlikely that the delay in diagnosing the condition materially contributed to the outcome. Therefore, you probably do not have a financially viable malpractice case. Clearly, the first set of doctors should have done more to rule out the possibility that a heart problem being a contributing cause, but in the end analysis, you would have needed the surgery that you had anyway. You were fortunate that the outcome was not worse.
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Answered on Jun 22nd, 2013 at 1:17 PM