{"id":5279,"date":"2020-07-15T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2020-07-13T06:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:25:38","slug":"misdiagnosis-of-multiple-sclerosis-leads-to-2-million-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/misdiagnosis-of-multiple-sclerosis-leads-to-2-million-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Misdiagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis Leads to $2 Million Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Doe was in her late 30s and suffered from multiple symptoms, including headaches. She consulted Dr. Roe, a neurologist, who performed a clinical examination. Dr. Roe diagnosed Ms. Doe as having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/multiple-sclerosis\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20350269\">multiple sclerosis<\/a> (MS). <\/p>\n<p>For approximately the next seven years, Ms. Doe underwent chemotherapy treatment and took numerous medications, resulting in complications that included pulmonary embolism, infertility, and a compromised immune system. Now hospitalized for a sleep study, a medical provider told Ms. Doe that she did not have MS and never had the condition.<\/p>\n<p>Doe sued Dr. Roe, the neurologist, alleging that he misdiagnosed her migraine condition as MS. Among other things, Doe argued that Dr. Roe chose not to confirm the diagnosis through a brain MRI and that previous imaging studies showed no evidence of lesions on her spine or brain.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/misdiagnosis-of-multiple-sclerosis-leads-to-2-million-settlement\/#more-5279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Doe was in her late 30s and suffered from multiple symptoms, including headaches. She consulted Dr. Roe, a neurologist, who performed a clinical examination. Dr. Roe diagnosed Ms. Doe as having multiple sclerosis (MS). For approximately the next seven years, Ms. Doe underwent chemotherapy treatment and took numerous medications, resulting in complications that included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,21,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","category-misdiagnosis","category-neurology-errors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Misdiagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis Leads to $2 Million Settlement &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ms. Doe was in her late 30s and suffered from multiple symptoms, including headaches. 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