The Health Service of Castilla and León indemnify with 59.523 euros to the family of a patient of health Care Complex of Segovia with lung cancer died without completing the diagnostic process.
As reported by the Advocate of the Patient through a statement, the ministry of Health has estimated the complaint filed by their legal services.
She said the bump was normal
The patient, a 69-year-old in February 2011, was subjected to a CT scan that reflected an image that suggested the presence of cancer. Subsequently, on April 7, we performed a bronchoscopy which was negative for malignancy, which is why should have been cited to be subjected to more tests to confirm or rule out definitely the diagnosis .
however, he explained that the bronchoscopy was normal and, by some error that this association considers it “inexplicable”, not again to cite it. According to the same sources, she is not called back because she did not know the result of the CT scan and had been told that the lump was normal.
in march of 2014, after going to his Primary Care physician for a box of tiredness, bowel movements diarrhea, nausea and low grade fever daily, she was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the lung. To then there was no curative treatment because the cancer was spread all over the body and died in December of 2014.
he Died three years later by metastases
