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To: 9thLife
Negligence resulting in death used to be malpractice

It is not negligent to fail to consider stomach cancer in a teenager.

48 posted on 05/30/2015 7:50:44 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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To: Jim Noble
It is not negligent to fail to consider stomach cancer in a teenager.

The symptoms and physical complaints persisted and were in line with a potential diagnosis of stomach cancer. That possibility should have been considered, investigated and ruled out even if it was not statistically likely. Would a correct diagnosis have saved her? We'll never know.

50 posted on 05/30/2015 7:57:31 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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