Medical News Summary: Judge refuses to seal details of misdiagnosis case

About: Judge refuses to seal details of misdiagnosis case
Date: 30 September 2004
Source: The Morning Call
Author: John Bull
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by The Morning Call): A husband brought a malpractice suit against a doctor who allegedly failed to diagnose his wife’s ovarian cyst for three years. She died as a result. Mediation resulted in a settlement for $725,000 on the conditions that a confidentiality clause was included. The judge refused to have the records sealed on the grounds that public money was being used to fund most of the settlement and thus the public had a right to know the details of what it was being spent on.
URL: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5medmalsep30,0,3977028.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed
Related Disease Topics: Ovarian cyst

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