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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..........

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UNBELIEVABLE! I am so sorry your treatment was delayed. Is there some kind of appeal process you can go through?

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No, the suit has been settled

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What, so he's saying it was the office people's responsibility to read and interpret the CXR? Seems like if he was doing the surgery, he should have personally seen it at some point?

I agree that they were too soft on him...grrr.

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actually, he denies he ever ordered the x-ray, and guess what, it came up missing from my file in radiology dept

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.

Does your insurance company have a copy of thebill for it?

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

How horrendous!!! What about a civil suit???

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Yeah, if you can't get him one way....hit him in the pocketbook....it'll hurt worse!!!

Kristy

Ex-smoker...day 2

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

i am rather surprised that your lawyer didn't pursue the missing x-ray order.......you know it was done, your insurance company should have records of paying for it, how did the lawyer miss all that?

1. could have been entered into the system by mistake intended for another patient.

2. could have been "mis-filed" by medical records. still there is a report somewhere in someone's records.

3. first film may have been read in error by radiologist...this has happened 2x to my family

(a).i had a large breast mass.......read as normal mammogram.......my gyn doc wasn't satisfied and ordered an ultrasound.......all of a sudden the mammogram had an amended report mentioning the mass......

(b.) my husbands upper gi series was read as abnormal lower gi with descriptions of what was "seen". you know like the colon, rectum etc. not funny now but seeing it showed me how lackidasical some people can be.

4. the blame it on the staff pronouncement...that's happened but in an office the doc is "captain of the ship."

my 'gut' feeling is someone is hiding something.....i'm going with number 3

i am sorry this happened to you . i hope you are all right now. but i'd be on this for as long as it takes. maybe even a second lawyer's opinion.

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what surgery did you initially have done? curious how that fits into this story....

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P_RN.

1. My attorney did persue the the missing order. there was a deposition done by the radiologist stating that the doctor took the order off of the desk of the radiologist the day of the deposition, along with the secretary stating that she saw the doctor in the radiologist's office. He took it out of the radiologist's brief case. She had it in there for the deposition as proof that he wrote the order.

2. I got a copy of the orginal x-ray and it showed a mass. My name and pt. number on the x-ray. i also got the orginal x-ray report, which said there was a mass and it matched with the films

3. The good doctor said at the deposition, when asked why he didn't tell me about the mass, that he didn't order the x-ray and didn't have an obligation to tell me, since he stated he didn't order the x-ray. By the way, the orginal order never did show up anywhere, but his name was on the radiology report.

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Sunnygirl 272

I had a right upper lobectomy done after i found out

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