Medical News Summary: Man sues after being diagnosed with another patients terminal condition

About: Man sues after being diagnosed with another patients terminal condition
Date: 28 August 2004
Source: The Sun Herald
Author: Tracy Dash
Medical News Summary (summary of medical news story as reported by The Sun Herald): A couple are in the process of suing a surgeon and a radiologist over an alleged misdiagnosis of a terminal brain cancer. The surgeon operated on the man but there was no brain cancer. The radiologist and surgeon were in fact looking at the scans of another patient who subsequently died of the brain cancer. It’s alleged that negligence led to the wrong man being operated on for a terminal brain cancer.
URL: http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/local/9519642.htm
Related Disease Topics: Brain cancer

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