Medical malpractice is negligence.  Negligence is the failure to exercise due care (that degree of care that a reasonable medical practitioner in the community would have exercised under the same or similar circumstances to prevent foreseeable harm).In order to have a medical malpractice case, you have to have a documented injury resulting from the medical malpractice.In your case, although there was a delay in the emergency room sending your x-rays to your doctor and the emergency room did not mention pulmonary fibrosis to you, your condition did not significantly worsen due to the delay in your doctor obtaining the x-rays.  Therefore, it would not be worth pursuing a medical malpractice case.If your condition had worsened because there was a significant delay in obtaining treatment based on the x-ray not being provided, you would have a medical malpractice case.