Laboratory Errors
When patients enter into the medical system, they are often scared and confused. We trust the medical professionals and the labs and diagnosticians they hire to provide us with accurate information about our condition. The results of misread slides, mistakes in samples, and failure to diagnose cancer can cause life threatening situations and on occasion, death.
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette* has reported that, “For patients, some of the most devastating medical mistakes can start in the lab, where studies show that 3 percent to 5 percent of the billions of specimens taken each year are defective, be it a biopsy that doesn’t extract the tumor cells, blood that isn’t drawn correctly or a mix-up with another patient’s sample. The error rate is significantly higher and more dangerous in common tests for many cancers, where a false positive may lead to unnecessary surgery or a false negative can miss a deadly skin cancer.”
If you or a loved one is affected by a faulty, negligent or error at a medical lab that led to severe harm, contact us. Shapiro Law Group has the resources to help you gain justice.
Shapiro Law Group has experience with:
- Failure to Diagnose Cancer
- Improper Diagnosis
- Misreading of tissue slides
source: post-gazette.com
