Recent posts discussing the cases of Darrie Eason, Scott Aprile and "Kim," a woman from Korea, revealed three similar yet different situations. Each involved some form of patient misidentification error that resulted in a cancer-free patient undergoing unnecessary breast removal surgery. Media coverage of these types of cases tends to focus on the patient who received some form of unnecessary treatment. While tragic for these patients, the reports seem to overlook a second and possibly more tragic victim - the patient WITH cancer who received delayed treatment or worse, no treatment at all.
Continue reading Delayed Cancer Treatment Likely Worse than Unneccessary Treatment.
