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Lab mix-up leads to wrongful double mastectomy
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by PEP | October 3, 2007 at 04:40 am
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More and more, health care is becoming more a matter of "let the consumer beware" than actual medical care and concern. In this case, a lab tech reportedly "cut corners" in sampling techniques, and a 35-year-old woman underwent a double mastectomy, praying to live through a deadly cancer--that she didn't have.
When she heard the diagnosis of invasive lobular carcinoma, Darrie Eason had but one thought: Please don't let me die.Four months and a double mastectomy later, doctors told Eason that her tissue sample had been mislabeled, and that she never had cancer.
"I didn't know what to believe," said Eason, a 35-year-old single mother from Long Beach. "They told me I had cancer and now they're telling me I didn't. I didn't know if the next day they were going to call me and say, 'Sorry, we made a mistake, you really do have cancer.'"
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at 04:54 on October 3rd, 2007
PEP, terrible stuff -- thanks for this.
at 05:57 on October 3rd, 2007
I think that this is why people use WebMD. Sure, it's the embodiment of "a little information is a dangerous thing", but the alternative is sometimes just as bad.
at 22:58 on October 3rd, 2007
Tks, guys. This is an appalling situation. Although I normally don't like the gold rush of lawsuits we seem to have these days, in this case, I think she ought to sue them for very big bucks. Not that the money can pay for her pain, physical and otherwise. But she at least needs resources--and the company needs to be punished.