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The Boston Globe (8/2, Saltzman) reports that a law suit was filed last week against Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on behalf of a patient who underwent “unwarranted” prostate surgery after a hospital pathologist “had mistaken his [biopsy] slides for those of another patient who did have prostate cancer.” A separate lawsuit was filed against a private laboratory in Lexington on behalf of another patient “whose situation was the reverse.” That specimen, which was analyzed by Strata Pathology Services, came back negative, but eight months later “a second biopsy, examined at a different lab, revealed that he had cancer.” These errors show that confusing biopsies can have devastating consequences.
I have represented victims of medical errors for nearly twenty years. I am still amazed as to how many times laboratories mix biopsies and make other medical errors. I see first-hand the emotional and physical harm such errors cause. Labs need to do more to protect against these mistakes–errors that should never happen.
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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2010)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in America.
Mr. Zambri is regularly asked to present seminars to lawyers and doctors, as well as both medical and law students concerning medication errors, medical malpractice litigation, and safety improvements.
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