Jury Awards $9 million in diagnosis failure
A New York jury, that included two nurses, awarded $9 million in a malpractice suit for the family of a woman whose doctor failed to diagnose her breast cancer. Suzanne E. Crane died in 2004 after her breast cancer spread. The 33-year-old mother of two began seeing the doctor in 2002 and after three visits the doctor failed to diagnose her cancer. Even after a lump was found in Crane’s breast the doctor never performed a biopsy. It took a different doctor in 2003 to recognize the cancer. Sadly, Crane was seven months pregnant with her youngest son when the diagnosis was made, and she could not immediately receive treatment. The verdict of $9 million includes more than $6 million based on future monetary losses.
