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A severely mentally disabled boy from Washington, PA, went into the Emergency Room at Washington Hospital with signs and symptoms suggesting that he had an abnormal build up of fluid on his brain. Unfortunately, the Emergency Room physician and the radiologist who read a CT scan of the child’s brain failed to detect the excess… read more
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Esophageal Perforation Case An Erie husband and father experienced a ruptured esophagus. The rupture was demonstrated on a chest X-ray, but the doctor did not see it. As a result, gastric chemicals, which are very corrosive and irritating, leaked into the patient’s chest for more than a day and caused significant damage to internal tissue…. read more
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A retired man from Erie had a routine chest x-ray done before entering the hospital for surgery on his leg. The chest x-ray showed suspicious signs that he might have lung cancer, but his doctor never read the report of the x-ray results and, as a result, the man was never referred for further investigation… read more
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Failure to diagnose lung cancer in veteran A Pittsburgh resident in his late 50s died as a result of a delay in diagnosing lung cancer. The cancer was first “missed” on a CT scan done in early 2012 at a private hospital, and then in 2013 at a Veterans Hospital in the Pittsburgh area. The patient… read more
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Spinal hematoma causing loss of leg function A 64-year-old Blair County man became paralyzed as a result of a delay in diagnosing and removing a hematoma which was pressing on his spinal cord. This man came to the emergency room with complaints of sudden pain in his back and right flank. An MRI of the spine was… read more
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A 54-year-old nurse from Uniontown, Fayette County, experienced a two-year delay in diagnosing lung cancer because a radiologist at a hospital in Connellsville, Fayette County, “missed” an obvious spot on her lung that should have been seen on a CT scan. Because of the delay, what started out as a small tumor that could have… read more
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Robert, a retiree from Shaler, went into the ER at UPMC Passavant after falling at home and hitting his head. An x-ray and CT scan was taken of his neck in the emergency room, and he was told everything was fine and sent home. Within a few hours of leaving the hospital, Robert was a… read more
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A young husband and father from Cranberry Township, Butler County went to the ER at UPMC Passavant Hospital with an excruciating headache. A CT scan of the head was done, and he was told that everything was normal. In reality, it was not normal. He had a collection of fluid which the doctors failed to see on… read more
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