Negligent delays in diagnosing lung cancer are a common form of medical malpractice, which almost always cause pain, suffering, disability, and often death. A timely lawsuit can provide necessary medical treatment, which may prolong the patient’s life and provide compensation to the victims. Medical malpractice is an epidemic with between 200,000 and 400,000 Americans dying annually from carelessness and negligence. The single most effective way that this epidemic of medical negligence can be controlled is by exposing this negligence, by holding the health care providers and corporations accountable, and forcing them to pay for the unnecessary injuries and deaths which