{"id":1777,"date":"2021-07-23T19:46:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T19:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/?post_type=sub-practice-areas&#038;p=1777"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:22:46","slug":"veterans-malpractice","status":"publish","type":"sub-practice-areas","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/veterans-malpractice\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran's Administration Malpractice Case Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The following are cases handled by attorneys at the firm against the Veterans Administration.&nbsp; These do not represent all of the VA cases that the firm has handled, but a representative few:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Failure to Diagnose Lung Cancer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A patient presented to the VA hospital with complaints of difficulty breathing.&nbsp; Although a chest x-ray revealed early stages of lung cancer, it went undiagnosed and untreated for more than a year.&nbsp; The patient suffered a premature death from that delayed diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Failure to Diagnose Anal Abscess<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Patient presents to VA hospital with severe rectal pain.&nbsp; Examination revealed swollen and red tissue.&nbsp; Patient was sent home with a diagnosis of hemorrhoids.&nbsp; He returned to his home state with a severe and worsening infection.&nbsp; He went to a second VA hospital where he was again misdiagnosed.&nbsp; The patient was suffering from an anal abscess which required incision, drainage and IV antibiotics.&nbsp; However, he did not timely receive this treatment and as a result, he died a premature death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Failure to Diagnose Neck Cancer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Patient presents to a VA hospital with signs and symptoms of neck pain, swelling, drainage and inflamed tissue.&nbsp; Patient's neck cancer was neither diagnosed or treated until it was too late resulting in his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1738,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":""},"categories":[74],"class_list":["post-1777","sub-practice-areas","type-sub-practice-areas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-administration-medical-malpractice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sub-practice-areas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}