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A 49-year-old man from Penn Hills went into Presbyterian University Hospital for lumbar disk surgery, and somehow the wrong disk was removed. He had to undergo two additional surgeries and as a result of those extra operations, he suffered nerve damage which left his with chronic pain in his back and abdomen as well as… read more
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An elderly woman from Beaver County went into the hospital to have a mastectomy for breast cancer. Due to a series of mistakes by the nurses and doctors, the surgeon removed the wrong breast. Although this did not affect the woman’s recovery and prognosis from the breast cancer, we filed a medical malpractice claim and… read more
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A professional man from Pittsburgh underwent a prostate biopsy and was told that he had prostate cancer and needed surgery. He underwent the surgery which, unfortunately, made him impotent. Ten days after surgery, he was told that the hospital had made a mistake and had mixed up his biopsy specimen with that of another patient,… read more
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A retired man from Altoona was mistakenly told that he had prostate cancer and underwent surgery for that “cancer” and ended up impotent. It turns out that the man did not have cancer, and the mistake occurred because the hospital mixed up a sample of his prostate with that of another patient. If the mix-up… read more
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