Such failures often involve a failure to diagnosis cancer on a timely basis but can also involve many other medical conditions, such as a heart ailment, a pulmonary embolism, a deep vein thrombosis, or a benign tumor.

Whatever the condition or illness, Walter G. Alton, Jr., has represented a large number of patients who were misdiagnosed or whose diagnosis was significantly delayed by their medical care providers.  Some of these cases include failing to recognize the need for timely surgery to remove the spleen, a tumor pressing on the spinal cord, failing to diagnose a treatable heart condition, and failing to diagnose and treat lung cancer, breast cancer, and colon cancer.

Walter G. Alton, Jr. & Associates P.C. can represent you in any claim involving a delay in diagnosis.