News tagged with 'Diagnosis Errors'

A Cook County judge has ruled that limiting caps on medical malpractice is unconstitutional, striking down a two-year old state law.

A New York jury awarded $14.5 million Thursday to the family of a Long Island woman who died of cervical cancer due to medical malpractice. Karen Pedone, 35, died in March 1997 after a medical laboratory failed to detect her cancer on a pap smear. Pedone's family sued her gynecologist, Richard Halpert, and the Metpat

The family of a woman who died of cancer due to an alleged improper Pap smear reading has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit with the laboratory involved for $4 million. Dr. Lynne Toombs-Datema, 37, died of cervical cancer in 2000, six years after a cytotechnologist at Metropolitan Reference Laboratory in St. Louis

A report in this month's issue of Archives of Surgery reveals that removing a healthy appendix may place a patient at greater risk of suffering damaging side effects. Researchers at the University of Washington reviewed data involving 52,969 appendix removals in 1997 and discovered that in 15 percent of the surgeries

A man who was mistakenly told by a health clinic that he was HIV positive was awarded $1.4 million by an Oklahoma jury last week. In 1993 an Oklahoma City-County Health Department employee told Anthony Northcutt, 40, that he was infected with the virus that causes AIDS. In fact, at the time of the clinic's diagnosis h

The family of an infant who was a victim of medical malpractice was awarded $3 million last November by a New York jury. The 1994 incident occurred when the baby girl's mother checked her into Staten Island University Hospital in September. The girl was initially diagnosed with torticollis (head tilt) but X-rays reve

A New York woman who was the victim of medical malpractice in 1993 was awarded nearly $4 million by a jury last November. Ann Bove was a nurse at Stony Brook University Hospital when intense knee pain led her to see an orthopedist. The doctor diagnosed Bove with chondromalacia, a condition characterized by abnormal c

A man dying of cancer recently accepted a $6.5 million settlement from a doctor who misdiagnosed his disease seventeen years earlier. The man, who remains anonymous, visited the doctor in 1984 complaining of painful erections and lesions in his groin area. The doctor did not recognize the problem. In 1997 the m

Thomas L. Morris III, the son of a postal worker who died after being exposed to anthrax, has filed a $37 million lawsuit against the facility that misdiagnosed his father last month. The suit claims that a doctor at the Kaiser Permanente facility in Maryland treated the postal worker for the flu and sent him home wit

Several days after being discharged from the hospital with what doctors said was an earache, Franco DeRungs died of a heart attack. The 46-year-old First National Bank senior vice president went to the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California complaining of chest and ear pains. He was discharged later that day. One wee