Misdiagnosis lawyers specialize in dealing with cases of medical malpractice where a victim's injuries are related to misdiagnosis of a medical condition. Misdiagnosis is the term which is applied when a doctor fails to correctly diagnose the disease being suffered by a patient. This may include cases where a disease is entirely missed, where a diagnosis is given which is not the true cause of the disease, and cases where a diagnosis of a disease is given when the patient is not actually suffering from that disease. It is an accepted fact that physicians will not be correct in all of their diagnoses, all of the time. In some cases however, the patient's chances of survival, the pain which is suffered, and the expenses incurred may all be detrimentally affected by a delayed or incorrect diagnosis. The expertise held by misdiagnosis lawyers gives them the ability to distinguish between cases of misdiagnosis which may be unavoidable and those which constitute medical malpractice.