CEO SUMMARY: As described in a civil lawsuit filed by a whistleblower pathologist in Kansas in July, a chair of pathology allegedly misdiagnosed cancer and the patient’s healthy pancreas was surgically removed. Court documents say that the pathologist then altered records to cover up the mistake and, when informed of this situation, the hospital did […]
Patient Safety Expert Says: ‘Tell Patients About Errors’
Additional developments in civil lawsuit filed about pathology error at university med center
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXIII No. 13 - September 26, 2016 Issue
