Please give me your input......... was the medical board to soft on the doctor. I believe they were
Will try to give you the readers digest version (short). I had seen this doctor about 3 years ago for treatment. He did surgery, and ordered standard pre-op tests, one of which was a chest x-ray. the x-ray showed i had lung CA and the doctor never told me. I had gone back to see him several times......about 11..after the surgery, so he had ample time to tell me. a year and a half went by and I had to see a nother doctor and was a new pt with this doctor. the md ordered a chest x-ray and it said "compared with the one taken.......................needless to say i was floored. I ended up having surgery to remove part of my lung. I filed a medical malpractice suit, which lasted 3 years and the doctor blamed it on his office help, for not telling him, and when it went before the medical board, they told him to keep better tabs on his office help. I couldn't believe what they had said, so he got off scott free. And your thoughts to this is..........