The woman’s New York medical malpractice lawsuit alleged that when she went to the ER she was seen by a physician assistant who diagnosed her increasing pain as sciatica. The physician assistant referred the woman to her OBGYN because the sciatica diagnosis did not fully explain all of her pain…medicalmalpracticelawyers, $3M Upstate New York Medical Malpractice Verdict For Misdiagnosis Of Perirectal Abscess In ER
Five days later, the woman returned to the ER at which time she was diagnosed with a perirectal abscess. She claimed that the CT scan from her first visit to the ER showed the top of the abscess but the radiologist missed the finding because the physician assistant did not provide enough information when ordering the CT scan. She claimed that the delay in diagnosing her perirectal abscess resulted in the worsening of her condition, and the necessary treatment was longer and more complicated than it would have been had the abscess been properly diagnosed and treated during the initial ER visit: she required eight surgeries over a two-year period.