Blog: Failure To Diagnose

Early breast cancer diagnosis law adopted by some states

Jul 6, 2012

The state legislature in a neighboring state recently passed a new bill requiring mammography reports to advise patients when they have "dense" breast tissue. This condition poses challenges to physicians to detect early stage breast cancer. A failure to diagnose early stage breast cancer can put Pennsylvania women in life-threatening positions. This concern spurred the New York legislature to act. This legislation requires that medical professionals advise women with dense breast tissue to consider additional...

Are M.R.I. scans overused in sports medicine?

Nov 9, 2011

For people throughout Pennsylvania who are injured while exercising a M.R.I. scan seems like the logical way to diagnose an injury and determine if surgery is warranted. There are some in the sports medicine field however who do not agree. Some in the field believe that the use of M.R.I. scans is routinely leading to patient misdiagnosis when an exam, taking a history and an X-ray could provide a more accurate diagnosis. The concern many...