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As in any other injury case, it is the plaintiff's burden in a medical malpractice case to prove that the doctor was negligent. In medical malpractice cases, courts often define negligence as the physician's failure to exercise the degree of care and skill of the average physician practicing the defendant's specialty, taking into account advances in the profession and the resources available to the defendant.
Visiting a hospital for an emergency illness or injury is never easy, but when you need hospital care, you want and deserve to feel safe with the people and healthcare system that are helping you recover.
Unfortunately, sometimes a hospital visit doesn't turn out the way you want it to. The impact of a medical error can be huge, often leaving you with injuries and losses that cannot be made up for with a simple apology. If errors occur at any point in the process, whether it's a misdiagnosis, inadequate surgery or a delay in treatment that worsens your condition, you or a loved one is entitled to make a hospital error claim.
Every year 41,000 cases of cancer are diagnosed in Greece, an average of 114 cases every day. Unfortunately, there are no official statistics on the percentage of cases where diagnosis is delayed. But there are for the UK, estimated at around 10% of breast cancer cases.
As such, claims for cancer misdiagnosis are among the most common medical negligence claims brought in the courts.