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My sister is a diabetic has been for many years, but she started having symptoms of loss of balance and spikes in blood glucose levels and prompted her to be hospitalized on multiple occasions, she would return to the same hospital over a total of 6 to 7 months. The hospital would treat the ketoacidosis and diagnosed her loss of balance and weakness associated to her diabetes (neuropathy) ,although she never had any pain associated with the weakness. I am a registered Nurse and live within another state, but I advised my sister to consult with a neurologist. She got an appointment and was seen at another medical institution, while she was waiting on the results of the neurological test, she progressed to get weaker to the point that she is now wheelchair bound and has paralysis of her lower legs, It has taken more than 6-7 months before she has gotten a diagnosis to treat the guillain barre syndrome, but because the diagnosis was delayed she is not responding to the treatments.
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Yes, based on the information provided, it sounds like your sister does have a case. One of the first questions in every med mal case is always "Did the provider's treatment fall beneath the accepted standard of care?" In other words, "given all the information available to the provider, did the provider fail to act reasonably under the circumstances?" That is always a very fact-specific inquiry; however, based on your description, it sounds like the doctors who treated her at the hospital were unreasonable to assume that her symptoms were all related to diabetes and that it was unreasonable to fail to refer her to a neurologist earlier.
She is welcome to call me at 888-434-2912 to further discuss the possible case.
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Kim Beck, Beck Law Center
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Answered on Aug 05th, 2022 at 2:27 PM