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"Failure to diagnose” is the terminology employed by doctors and most often attorneys to specify when a patient has a set of symptoms that have gone undiagnosed – usually considered one of the forms of misdiagnosis. When failure leads to a diagnosis in time to treat, it’s considered a "delayed diagnosis.” However, when this failure to diagnose leads to harm or death of the patient, there are legal ramifications.