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Three doctors were wrong and one patient suffered the partial removal of a lung and the initiation of unnecessary chemotherapy treatment due to a misdiagnosis of cancer. Now, a clinical laboratory must compensate the woman with about 120,000 euros, the complainant's law firm has reported.
The sentence of the twelfth section of the Provincial Court of Madrid condemns two pathologists and the medical head of pathological anatomy of Labco Quality Diagnostics (now called Synlab Global Diagnostics) "for medical negligence", for a double diagnostic error issued in April 2017 when qualifying a tumor as malignant and metastatic when it was not.
The patient asked for a second opinion and with the same samples analyzed by the laboratory of the Hospital La Paz determined that the tumor was neither malignant nor metastatic, an error that, according to the sentence, the laboratory recognized although without assuming the consequences.
The note from the law firm MCP explains that the insurance firms of the laboratory and the doctors rejected a previous friendly agreement giving the judicial battle until obtaining two sentences against them, the first of the Court number 3 of Alcobendas, being firm the one dictated by the Provincial Court of Madrid.
The defendants must pay compensation of 118,957.82 euros plus default interest for the physical, aesthetic and psychological sequelae derived from the unnecessary partial removal of the lung.
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