{"id":73,"date":"2016-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/when-doctors-give-an-incorrect-ms-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:29:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:29:56","slug":"when-doctors-give-an-incorrect-ms-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/when-doctors-give-an-incorrect-ms-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"When doctors give an incorrect MS diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A misdiagnosis can have many negative effects on a patient. One is a patient getting treatment for a condition they don\u2019t actually have. Such unnecessary treatments can be problematic, particularly if they carry risks of severe side effects.<\/p>\n<p>One medical condition that has treatments that can have major side effects is multiple sclerosis. So, avoiding MS misdiagnoses is very important. Unfortunately, this disease has certain aspects that can make it particularly prone to being diagnosed when it isn\u2019t actually there.<\/p>\n<p>For one, its symptoms can be similar to those of other conditions. Also, there currently aren\u2019t objective biomarkers that can be tested for when it comes to this condition. So it could be easy, when proper care isn\u2019t taken, for a doctor to mistake another condition for MS.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/when-doctors-give-an-incorrect-ms-diagnosis\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading When doctors give an incorrect MS diagnosis\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A misdiagnosis can have many negative effects on a patient. One is a patient getting treatment for a condition they don\u2019t actually have. Such unnecessary treatments can be problematic, particularly if they carry risks of severe side effects. One medical condition that has treatments that can have major side effects is multiple sclerosis. So, avoiding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When doctors give an incorrect MS diagnosis &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; September 15, 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When doctors give an incorrect MS diagnosis - Medical Malpractice - 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\/when-doctors-give-an-incorrect-ms-diagnosis\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"When doctors give an incorrect MS diagnosis &#8212; 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