Funny turn messed up my life
I had a funny turn about 5 years ago. I had a severe headache which was followed by left-sided weakness of my face, and some weakness of my left arm.
My GP said this was a TIA, which is a some temporary loss of blood supply to the brain.
In a nutshell, the DVLA got wind of this and suspended my driver's licence. My business was always in sales, which required me to be on the road a lot of the time.
Two years later I see a consultant neurologist and discover that I did not have a TIA but a migraine associated with weakness of one side.
So - I'm hopping mad because my livelihood has been totally messed up.
I was wrongly diagnosed with a stroke when I had no such thing. It was a severe migraine. Who's going to compensate me for the years I lost? What can your site do for me?
Response:
- We are happy to guide you to a solution that helps you.
- What we won't do is fight your case.
- You should gather all correspondence you have on this matter.
- Make photocopies of all that you have and scan them if possible.
- Draw up a timeline of what happened in Excel, or other spreadsheet software.
- Your case seems to be wrongful diagnosis leading to loss of earnings etc.
- You will need legal advice on whether there is a good case of negligence against the doctor. However, beware that if you allege negligence, you are burdened to prove this.
- You should speak with your legal representative who can request all health care records from the hospital or health facility.
- Wrongful diagnosis is not necessarily negligence. Doctors can make mistakes in coming to diagnosis. The key issue is whether such wrongful diagnosis was negligent.
- To establish negligence you would be burdened to prove in a court of law that the doctor failed to carry out his duty.
- You would next have to show a causal link between such breach and any harm you suffered.
- Causation in law is not simply what you think it is - so it is adviseable to research these matters before proceeding.
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