Medical News Summary: Doctors apology after woman goes blind from undiagnosed tumour

About: Doctors apology after woman goes blind from undiagnosed tumour
Date: 16 July 2004
Source: News.Scotsman.com
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by News.Scotsman.com): An investigation led to health chiefs at a hospital apologizing to a woman after she had an undiagnosed pituitary gland tumour for three years. An initial diagnosis of hypertension and poor administration lead to late diagnosis and she was eventually blinded by her condition. Nevertheless, the ombudsman did note that the woman should have taken some responsibility in looking for answers when her sight started to deteriorate.
URL: http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=812512004
Related Disease Topics: Pituitary gland tumour, Blindness, Hypertension
Related Symptom Topics: Eye pain

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Related Medical News Channels: This medical news summary article refers to the following medical channel categories:

• Undiagnosed
• Undiagnosed and tumour
• Undiagnosed and pituitary gland tumour
• Misdiagnosis (type of Medical misadventure)
• Misdiagnosis of eye pain
• misdiagnosis of hypertension
• misdiagnosis of blindness
• Misdiagnosis of pituitary gland tumour
• Misdiagnosis of eye pain
• misdiagnosis of cancer
• Cancer
• Undiagnosed and cancer

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