Jury Awards $5.7 Million in Cancer Patient Malpractice Suit

May 25, 2007

  • May 29, 2007 at 9:27 am
    Bill Reed says:
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    In order to portray these types of scenarios in a fair and complete way, commentary on the defense arguments should be included, assuming of course there are any. It would also be nice to know if the outcome would have been significantly different had the cyst been biopsied earlie, and if this pltf. had other cysts.

    On a related issue, there needs to be some reform on the standard of negligence for medical malpractice. We don\’t live in a perfect world and to hold physicians to a 100% error free standard is unrealistic. In cases of gross negligence malpractice is the appropriate charge. What about when a surgeon makes an honest mistake. Malpractice? There are inherent risks in anything people do. When you consent to a surgery, you understand there are associated risks. While doctors insurance carriers should pay for actual damages as the result of a mistake, general damages should be reserved only for true malpractice situations. Doctors should be given credit for evena attempting surgeries. There are a lot of variables when working on a human body that can\’t be controlled. It\’s not like working on a car.

  • May 29, 2007 at 10:14 am
    ES says:
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    Did I read that correctly? She was awarded $3 million and he only got $2.7 and he\’s the one with cancer and the victim of \”malpractice.\” What a world we live in.

  • June 1, 2007 at 1:25 am
    Beans says:
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    Yeah I have been following this case through someone who was there and I\’m on the doctors side. A previous doctor referred the patient to the defendant. Told him it was a cyst. They should be faulting the other doctors for not doing the biopsy . This guy had been getting bumps that keeps coming back when they remove it. Skin cancer runs in his family he should have been aware that and looked into it.



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