CEO SUMMARY: This widely-reported case of misdiagnosis at an Allina hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota is a powerful reminder to pathology practices and clinical laboratories that breakdowns in medical quality will draw increasing attention and scrutiny. Both the patient and the community are questioning why the pathologist who made the mistake will apparently be allowed […]
Needless Mastectomy Draws National Attention
Slide mix-up at pathology group practice leads to a wrong breast cancer diagnosis
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume X No. 2 - February 10, 2003 Issue
- Tags: Anatomic pathology, anatomic pathology services, biopsy, clinical lab, clinical laboratories, dark report, health care organizations, jcaho, laboratories, laboratory director, laboratory executive, laboratory industry, pathologists, pathology associates, Pathology group, pathology practice, pathology service, pathology services, quality control, the dark report, the laboratory
