Fascynujace...rozumiem, e mogli jej walnac serie 25 radiacji, ale ze w
trakcie operacji lekarze najbardziej rozwinieta medycyne na swiecie nie
zorientowali sie ze operuja zdrowego czlowieka bez zadnych zmian rakowych?
Nie zbadano natychmiast po operacji usunietych tkanek
No, alesciwie to po co
Oczywiscie, ta druga kobieta ktora zdiagnozowano raka negatywnie
najprawdopodobniej umrze niedlugo na raka.
Garden City woman underwent surgery, radiation, only to be told of lab error -
she never had the disease
BY REID J. EPSTEIN
Newsday Staff Writer
September 27, 2006
After undergoing a lumpectomy and 25 painful radiation treatments, Lynne
Yurosko got surprising
news: She never actually had breast cancer.
Now, a year and a half after her tissue sample was mixed up with another
woman's, the Garden City retail consultant said she has lost her trust in the
medical system and is concerned the radiation she received could itself cause
cancer. She is also worried that the woman with whom her biopsy samples were
switched may never have found out her true diagnosis, despite the
laboratory's assurances to the contrary.
"You trust them to give you accurate information," she said. "You have this
fear that it wasn't just me. It can be other women."
Yurosko, 56, is suing Quest Diagnostics; the Nassau Radiologic Group, a
medical and testing center with several locations in Nassau; and four
doctors.
"The woman whose slide was switched had a good holiday [Thanksgiving]," she
said. "I had cancer treatment."
Jim Conway, a senior fellow at the Institute for Health Care Improvement, a
not-for-profit health research organization in Cambridge, Mass., said
mislabeling errors happen in hospitals, though no figures are available about
how often.
"We are seeing throughout the health care system examples of the wrong test,
wrong patient are occurring," he said.
