If ever there was a reason for a second opinion!

ADK

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/health/14269473/detail.html

This stuns me.

lvtwoqlt

Anne,

I saw her this morning on GMA and the pathology place said that they did not break protocal. If the person reading the slides was not responsible enough to check and double check which slide he was looking at prior to writing the report, he should be keel-hauled.

How upsetting to find out that you did not have cancer after surgery or even worse, getting an all clear from your biopsy only to find out later that it actually was cancer and the guy mixed up slides.

Sheila

NoH8

I was pissed off when our local news show had a teaser about this, saying it's a woman's worst nightmare. I'll bet any of us with cancer would trade places with her situation.

Shirlann

Right on!  Pink Ribbon Amy, not even counting the fact she will never have to work again!

Hugs, Shirlann

Anonymous

I'm with ya, Amy ... that sounds like a dream to us .... and the money she will get from this .... well she deserves it. But isn't the cap $250,000 when it comes to medical malpractice???  I know in California, tort reform happened and I didn't stay up on it to see if it passed.

fire

But isn't the cap $250,000 when it comes to medical malpractice??? 

Yes in CA.

nosurrender

You know what happened to her was my dream for so long. I waited and waited for my docs to call me and tell me they made a terrible mistake...

yes, she had to endure a bilateral. But while I was watching her on our local news I couldn't help but thinking how much that has decreased her chances of ever getting BC now.

And she lives on long island which is  a huge cancer cluster... it is getting so that everyone I meet now is either being dx'd or has a relative being dx'd.

iodine

My path report came back as ER neg, and my gut told me it was wrong.  My surgeon and his staff thought I was crazy to request it be redone and blew me off.  I personally found out the name of a NY lab and contacted the  pathologist and had it sent to NY.

It came back ER pos.  The first path retested it and got ER pos, too.

I was able to decline chemo!  (grey area) 

Surgeon didn't think I was so crazy anymore!  Embarresed the hell out of him.

Anonymous

After my MRI today I ran by the grocery store.  I saw a friend from the church we used to attend.  We had a long conversation.  I found out that two girls that went to school with my girls have breast cancer.  I just about dropped over.  And another person from that same church just found out she has colon cancer.  It's downright scary. 

Shirley

NoH8

Also-- she's probably never have to get breast cancer...