{"id":219,"date":"2015-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/failure-to-diagnose-mans-cancer-resulted-in-fatal-consequences\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:34:14","slug":"failure-to-diagnose-mans-cancer-resulted-in-fatal-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/failure-to-diagnose-mans-cancer-resulted-in-fatal-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to diagnose man\u2019s cancer resulted in \u201cfatal consequences\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we often talk about the different types of mistakes medical professionals make when caring for a patient, there is also a big concern when a medical professional fails to do something. In the case of one prison inmate in New York, this was a failure to diagnose that eventually led to his death.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a judge awarded the deceased man\u2019s family with $1.75 million for the \u201cextended physical and mental pain and suffering\u201d endured by the man and his family. The judge found that the state, which was in charge of the man\u2019s medical care while he was in prison, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorklawjournal.com\/id=1202741823866\/Inmates-Estate-Awarded-17M-for-Delay-in-Treating-Cancer?mcode=1202617075062&amp;curindex=1&amp;curpage=ALL\" target=\"_blank\">fatal consequences<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 the man repeatedly complained about severe pain in his abdomen. He was initially diagnosed with kidney stones, and a physician recommended that he be seen by an urologist. While the doctors at the correctional facility were aware of the recommendation, they never referred him to the urologist. It was only in late 2011 when the man\u2019s urothelial cancer was found and treated. Although he was cancer-free for a short time, the cancer returned in his lymph nodes in 2013 and he passed away in 2015 at the age of 58.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/failure-to-diagnose-mans-cancer-resulted-in-fatal-consequences\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Failure to diagnose man\u2019s cancer resulted in \u201cfatal consequences\u201d\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we often talk about the different types of mistakes medical professionals make when caring for a patient, there is also a big concern when a medical professional fails to do something. In the case of one prison inmate in New York, this was a failure to diagnose that eventually led to his death. Recently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-failure-to-diagnose","tag-failure-to-diagnose"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Failure to diagnose man\u2019s cancer resulted in \u201cfatal consequences\u201d &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; November 13, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Failure to diagnose man\u2019s cancer resulted in \u201cfatal consequences\u201d - Failure to Diagnose - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/failure-to-diagnose-mans-cancer-resulted-in-fatal-consequences\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Failure to diagnose man\u2019s cancer resulted in \u201cfatal consequences\u201d &#8212; 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