J. Hernandez

When Young Person Passes Away Of Colon Cancer Metastasis After Physician Ignores Symptoms

Approximately 10% of those diagnosed with colon cancer are younger than 50. However, because of the lethal nature of the disease doctors generally agree that the presence of rectal bleeding, even in an individual under 50, should be followed by a colonosc... Read >

Physician's Failure To Follow Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines And Malpractice Cases

The second largest number of cancer fatalities is from colorectal cancer.. Every year, roughly 48,000 men and women will die as a result of colorectal cancer. Many of these fatalities would be prevented with early diagnosis and treatment through routine c... Read >

Doctor Misinterpret Mammogram And You Might Not Detect Woman’s Breast Cancer In Early Stages

Women routinely get mammograms and count on physicians to properly interpret the images and tell them whether or not they have cancer. Still, doctors in some cases misread mammograms. This can occur by them either not noticing an abnormality that is prese... Read >

How Wrong Colon Cancer Treatment Suggestions From Doctor May Lead To Lawsuit

There are over one hundred forty two thousand new instances of colorectal cancer found each year. It takes the lives of fifty three thousand additional men and women each year. In the last 10 years there have been advancements in the treatment options ava... Read >

Doctor Says You Just Have Hemorrhoids But You Have Colon Cancer Which Is Growing And Spreading

The very mention of the phrase “colon cancer" tends to raise worry in the majority of us. It can thus feel quite reassuring for your doctor say that you only have hemorrhoids and there is no need to be concerned about the blood in your stool. Yet this rea... Read >

Why Considerable Holdup By Physician In Detecting Colon Cancer Might Result In Death Of Young Person

Around ten percent people diagnosed with colon cancer are under the age of 50. Yet, because of the lethal nature of the disease doctors typically concur that rectal bleeding, even in a patient below 50, has to be followed by a colonoscopy to verify whethe... Read >

Pedestrian Recovers $1.2 Million After Driver Claimed Medical Emergency Caused The Accident

“Take responsibility." It is an expression that is frequently said but not oftentimes lived up to. In motor vehicle accident lawsuits it is not at all uncommon to see a driver or other party deny, instead of take, responsibility for causing the accident. ... Read >

Bicyclist Catastrophically Injured In Motor Vehicle Accident Compensated $3,500,000

When a vehicle accident claim involves fairly modest injuries and will probably be resolved with a rather modest settlement or award the economics involved make it improbable that either the plaintiff or the defendant will retain an expert witness. The ex... Read >

Examples Of Motor Vehicle Accident With Seriously Injured Children And The Resulting Cases By The Fa

Tragically sometimes children are victims of pedestrian accidents. Statistically, at least 28,000 children pedestrians will be hurt in a motor vehicle accident every year there it A certain percentage of these children will be left with a lifelong disabil... Read >

Doctor Overlooks Test Results Leaving Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer

This year around 14% of the 193,000 males diagnosed with prostate cancer will already have advanced prostate cancer when they are first told. With screening, including digital examinations and PSA blood tests, many of these individuals could have been dia... Read >

Why Malpractice Lawsuits May Arise If Metastatic Prostate Cancer Is Because Of Holdup From Watchful

There are tests that allow the detection of some types of cancers, for example prostate cancer, prior to the time the patient presents with symptoms. The idea is to detect the cancer early - before it is able to spread while treatment is likely to cure th... Read >

Baby Exposed To Oxygen Deprivation As Nurse Missed Indications Of Fetal Distress

There are some types of errors physicians make when confronted with a pregnant woman suffering from a placental abruption. The reason that an abruption of the placental is so high risk for the unborn baby is that is may significantly lessen the quantity o... Read >

Claim Follows After Woman Dies Whose Physicians Failed To Test Her According To The Screening Guidel

The need for screening even asymptomatic men and women for colon cancer when they are 50 or older and for testing individuals who display certain symptoms such as blood in the stool is generally established within the medical community. Not doing so may e... Read >

Doctors Misinterpreted Mammograms And Failed to Diagnose Patient's Cancer Until It Spread

The mammogram is a primary tool available to doctors to diagnose a female patient's breast cancer while it is the early stages, thereby saving the lives of these women. However physicians at times misread memmograms by either missing an abnormality that i... Read >

Cancer Lawyer Helps Victims Of Metastatic Colon Cancer Whose Physician Did Not Follow Up To Their Sy

Sometimes an individual who is told by a doctor that blood in the stool is from hemorrhoids later discovers that the bleeding was actually due to a cancerous tumor in the colon. He or she now has advanced colon cancer that has progressed to the lymph node... Read >