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its a touchy situation. doctors need protection from frivolous lawsuits, but sometimes something that may seem frivolous is anything but. in the case of diagnosis, though, i don't know if that's something that i could support a case for lawsuit. as munchen said, diagnosis is sometimes hit or miss, which is why people get second and third opinions. that's not to prove that a doctor is incompetent, but merely to increase the chances of a missed diagnosis being caught later. i'm going to start med school in two years, and all i know is if/when i am approached as the second physician examining a patient, and find something that was missed before, i wouldn't necessarily feel the previous physician wasn't competent. sometimes circumstances may not point to the proper problem.
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