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Your doctor tells you that you have cancer. The doctor tells you you need surgery immediately
so that the cancer won’t spread and ultimately kill you. What do you do? You have the surgery
and shortly afterwards you learn, oh by the way, you never had cancer to begin with. Would
you like to learn what this is about? Come join me as I share with you this incredible
information. Hi. I’m Gerry Oginski. I’m a New York medical malpractice and personal
injury trial attorney practicing law here in the state of New York. The doctor goes
ahead and removes a small tissue, a small piece of tissue, and sends it for evaluation.
The doctor who evaluates that is known as a pathologist. That’s a doctor who specializes
in evaluating and interpreting different tissue specimens under the microscope. The result
is that the doctor comes back, says that you have significant malignant cancer. Now your
treating doctor formulates a treatment plan that says listen I just got the pathology
report, it shows that you have advanced cancer and the only treatment is to have surgery
to remove this organ that’s killing you. If you don’t have it, you’re going to
die. So what do you do? Well, chances are you’re going to listen to your doctor and
go forward with the surgery that’s recommended. Some patients will go ahead and get a second
opinion. But what if you’re not one of those patients who gets a second opinion and now
you’re relying on your doctor. The doctor does the procedure and then after the procedure
they get the pathology report back from the organ that they removed and, lo and behold,
the doctor tells you in his office in follow up, “Oh by the way, Ms. Jones, I’m so
sorry to tell you. You never had cancer to begin with.” You underwent a surgery that
you didn’t need. You were told that you had a diagnosis of cancer that you really
didn’t have and now you’re really curious – not just curious, but you’re getting
angrier and angrier by the day. The more you think about it, the more you realize how unnecessary
and unwarranted this whole process was. So what do you do? You wind up going to an attorney
who then gets copies of the slides that were originally evaluated by the first pathologist.
It just so happens that the pathologist did not read and interpret your specimen correctly.
In fact, if it was read correctly it would have shown that you had absolutely no cancer
whatsoever. So what do you do? In that instance, you would likely probably have a valid case
against the pathologist and the company that he works for for misinterpreting the original
slides which then led to your treating doctor recommending and performing the surgery which
really was not necessary. So why do I share this great information with you? You know,
I share it with you just to give you an insight and an understanding into one of the types
of malpractice cases that can occur and that does occur here in the state of New York.
Chances are you have questions and concerns about your own particular matter. And if you
have legal questions, what I encourage you to do is pick up the phone and call me. I
can answer your legal questions. I answer questions like this every single day and I
welcome your call. You can reach me at 516-487-8207 or by email at lawmed10@yahoo.com. I’m Gerry
Oginski, coming to you from New York. Have a wonderful day.