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Chicago Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Failure To Inform Patient Of Cancer Diagnosis

September 19, 2014

According to a Chicago medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a urologist and a medical center, the daughter of a 58-year-old man who died from bladder cancer alleges that her father was not timely told about the results of a pathology report that found cancer after her father had a biopsy of a[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed By Kidney Donor

August 11, 2014

When a Texas grandmother needed a kidney transplant, her granddaughter was found to be an appropriate kidney donor. With the love between a grandmother and her granddaughter as the sole motivating factor, the kidney transplant surgery took place on February 1, 2012, with the granddaughter donat[...]

Ohio Cancer Misdiagnosis Case Alleges MRI Of Wrong Knee

August 5, 2014

An Ohio woman filed a medical malpractice case during July 2014 in which she alleges that the negligence of two treating physicians in failing to timely diagnose a cancerous tumor in her left knee for a period of seven months in 2010 led to her chances of survival decreasing from 70% (when[...]

New Mexico Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed For Missed Cancer Diagnosis

May 31, 2014

A New Mexico woman was pro-active and attentive to protecting her own health when she arranged to have a screening mammogram in 2007 at a local radiology practice. She was surprised when she was told by the radiologist that a spot the size of a nickel was found in her right breast but she felt [&hel[...]

Illinois Medical Malpractice Case Alleges Misdiagnosis Cancer Treated With Smuggled Drugs

May 28, 2014

An Illinois medical malpractice lawsuit has been re-filed by a woman who was misdiagnosed with cancer and then treated by her doctor with unapproved drugs imported from Turkey. The woman had anemia for which she underwent a bone marrow biopsy on January 19, 2009. The results of the biopsy indicated [...]

$1.9M Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Verdict For Unnecessary Cancer Treatment

March 21, 2014

On March 11, 2014, a Worchester, Massachusetts medical malpractice jury found in favor of the estate of a man who was told in 2003 that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after which he twice underwent chemotherapy and later had a stem cell transplant. The medical malpractice jury’s verdic[...]

Texas Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Oncologist For Cancer Misdiagnosis

July 22, 2013

Imagine being told by an oncologist that you have terminal Stage IV breast cancer, meaning that your cancer is advanced (has spread) and you are likely to die from the cancer. Imagine further that your oncologist misread a medical test that showed you did not have cancer and that the chemotherapy a[...]

New York State-Operated Hospital Killed Patient With Impunity

July 15, 2013

On March 7, 2013, a 41-year-old single mother of a mentally disabled teenage daughter died after her over two-year battle with lung cancer that was treatable and curable had a New York state-operated hospital not committed medical malpractice in 2010. When the woman arrived at the emergency roo[...]

Maine Medical Malpractice Verdict For Cancer Misdiagnosis

June 20, 2013

On June 13, 2013, a Maine medical malpractice jury awarded a now 47-year-old man $200,000 for his severe emotional trauma due to his physician misdiagnosing his cancer as a much more aggressive form of pancreatic cancer (stage 4) rather than the more treatable non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that he ac[...]

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