My health would be my first concern. I would immediately procure a medical professional that is an expert in infectious diseases. I would go to the extent of finding a second professional to concur or counter the first. Once my condition has been stabilized, I would then coordinate with my attorney to initiate legal action against the doctor that did the faulty diagnosis.

With the diagnosis of my current doctors, statements from experts in infectious diseases, and whatever else emerges during the process of discovery I would propel the civil suit forward. I would also make myself available to whatever criminal case the district attorney may bring up against the doctor.

If I survive the ordeal, whatever monetary compensation I derive, I can easily justify for my pain and suffering. If I were to die, I would structure the suit so that it may continued by my estate and my family can benefit.

I actually had something like that happen. I had a parasitic disease that was misdiagnosed for years, until I had one particularly bad flareup, and decided to go get a second opinion. The worst thing about it is that I had been suffering for years with this, and had been given hundreds of dollars worth of meds, when a simple treatment would have cured it.

I ended up with internal scarring that will affect me for the rest of my life. I could have sued the Dr.'s involved, but they would have dragged me through hell again, so I just let it drop.

I would only sue a doctor if I knew that he had been deliberately negligent or refused to refer me to a specialist if I had asked, and then found out the disease was more serious than first thought. Like the rest of us, doctors are only human and sometimes they goof up. There are so many diseases that have similar symptoms that misdiagnoses are bound to happen.

People are just too lawsuit-happy these days, and we've lost some excellent doctors who could truly benefit mankind, but have been driven out of practice by malpractice insurance and the threat of lawsuits.

I guess in the example you give, I would thank God that the disease had not reactivated yet and that it had finally been discovered so that I could get appropriate treatment. I'd put myself in the hands of capable doctors and God and pray that I would be healed. And if I weren't, well, we all gotta go sometime.