Medical Malpractice and Cancer
Medical errors and malpractice for Cancer: medical news summaries for Cancer: The following medical news items are relevant to the medical errors (including malpractice) for Cancer:
- 19 doctors fail to diagnose man’s oral cancer
- 44 men unsure of whether they have prostate cancer due to biopsy problems
- A radiologist faces malpractice suit after allegedly misreading mammograms and x-rays
- Delayed tumour diagnosis results n $160,000 settlement
- Doctor refuses to see man with intense pain
- Erroneous pathology tests lead to malpractice suit
- For 2 months man believes he is dying of pancreatic cancer
- Gay woman sues hospital for partner’s misdiagnosis of breast cancer
- Hospital accidentally gives cancer patient excess radiation
- Investigation follows 46 year old’s death after cerebral angiogram
- Judge refuses to seal details of misdiagnosis case
- Lack of follow-up on x-ray result leads to man’s death from cancer
- Man dies of cancer 9 months after last visit to doctor
- Man fails in bid to have disciplinary action brought against doctor
- Man receives 192,000 pounds for throat cancer misdiagnosis
- Man seeks action against the surgeon who misdiagnosed his late wife
- Man sues after being diagnosed with another patients terminal condition
- Man sues for loss of leg due to undiagnosed cancer
- Man unable to have children wins a 30,000 pound settlement
- Medical malpractice lawsuit filed but doctor can’t be found
- Mum threatens to take legal action over daughter’s death
- Surgeon still operating after botched rectal cancer surgeries
- Three medical malpractice cases brought against different doctors
- Three tests fail bring cervical cancer to doctors attention
- Victory reversed after inadmissible evidence used in medical malpractice suit
- Woman and daughter sue over cancer misdiagnosed as growing pains
- Woman dies after she was told she was too young to have breast cancer
- Woman dies from cancer under advice from an alternative medicine practitioner
- Woman to receive compensation after gross misdiagnosis leads to unnecessary surgery
- Woman’s bowel cancer was not diagnosed until after her death
- Woman’s brain tumour receives 35 different misdiagnoses over 20 years
- Woman’s ulcers misdiagnosed as cancer
- Wrongly diagnosed cancer leads to unnecessary removal of lung lobe
| About malpractice: For a general overview of medical malpractice issues for all diseases, see Medical Malpractice. For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases, including malpractice-related issues in misdiagnosis, see Overview of Misdiagnosis. |
Medical articles on symptoms: These general reference articles may be of interest:
- Medical Malpractice
- Medical Malpractice Overview
- Symptoms and Medical Malpractice
- More Medical Malpractice Information
- List of Medical Malpractice Articles
- Medical Malpractice Dictionary
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