Cancer Misdiagnosis Resulted In Hysterectomy: On April 12, 2023, a woman filed an Idaho medical malpractice lawsuit against a pathologist who reported that a biopsy showed she had cancer which then led to an unnecessary hysterectomy. The woman alleges that she was initially told by her nurse practitioner that she had menstrual issues that were causing her bleeding. However, the defendant pathologist, who owned the laboratory where the biopsy from July 6, 2021 was evaluated, diagnosed an aggressive form of endometrial cancer.
As a result of the defendant pathologist’s diagnosis of cancer, the woman consulted with medical specialists on July 20, 2021 during which treatment options were discussed, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery. The woman subsequently had a hysterectomy that involved the surgical removal of her uterus, both ovaries, both fallopian tubes, and lymph nodes in her abdomen.
Following the painful surgery, three pathologists at the hospital where the surgery took place evaluated the organs and tissues removed during the surgery. They concluded that there was no indication of cancer from the samples they examined. They then re-examined the biopsy samples evaluated by the defendant pathologist who diagnosed cancer and they found that there was no cancer in those samples.
The woman and her husband filed their Idaho medical malpractice lawsuit against the defendant pathologist and his laboratory, alleging medical negligence and recklessness that led to the unnecessary surgery as well as the emotional toll suffered as a result of the misdiagnosis of cancer: “The erroneous diagnosis of cancer caused (her) to undergo an unnecessary surgery and the resultant pain and suffering from such surgery. The erroneous cancer diagnosis caused (the couple) substantial emotional trauma in believing that (she) had cancer and then in being told that she did not have cancer.” The woman and her husband seek damages in excess of $25,000 each.
The defendant pathologist, a vocal anti-vaxxer who railed against the COVID-19 vaccine, stated to a like-minded group two weeks after he allegedly misdiagnosed the woman as having cancer: “I have seen a 10- to 20-fold increase of uterine cancer in the last six months in my laboratory. In the last six months. When did we start shots? January? How much solid-tumor cancer increase are we going to see over the next several years? Probably a lot.”
Reporting by the Idaho Capital Sun in 2022 revealed accusations by several of the defendant pathologist’s former employees that he operated his laboratory in a “reckless” manner. The Sun reported that the defendant laboratory pulled in large amounts of money from COVID-19 test revenues and federal and state grants associated with the pandemic.
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