Galician health is condemned for diagnosing asthma in a woman with cancer
The Servizo Galego de Saúde must compensate the widower and the two children of the victim
The Galician Health (Sergas) has been convicted of killing a 40 - year compostelana due to lung cancer that had been diagnosed with asthma. You must compensate the widower and the two children of the victim. According to Castre & Co Abogados, who has handled this case, she was diagnosed and treated in 2011 for asthma after frequent visits to her family doctor for chronic cough and osteoarticular pain, among other symptoms, despite the fact that the disease "was never confirmed with the right tests for it. "
The office explains that the patient took more than a year to be referred to the emergency department because it did not cure. Finally, doctors found a stage IV lung adenocarcinoma. So far it has not transcended what was the hospital in which the woman was treated.
The experts agreed that if cancer had been detected in stages I or II, surgery that had a good prognosis would have been performed. In fact, in a CT scan they saw an injury suggestive of metastasis but since this non-smoking patient did not report pain on that side, they treated it as a contracture.
The magistrate considers that there was a loss of opportunity, since there was the possibility, but not the certainty, that with the performance of the appropriate tests the result could have been another.
