Significant six-figure recovery for unnecessary mastectomy

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 obtained a very large six-figure award for the trauma of her having an unnecessary mastectomy.