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Lab Mix-Up Leads to Double Mastectomy; Lawsuit Filed
Posted by: Jason Reese
December 24, 2008
Topic: Personal Injury
Negligence occurs behind closed doors and inside laboratories. These human errors in processing tissue samples are usually the result of careless processing procedures. Here's a horrible example where mislabeling a pathology specimen resulted in a true nightmare for a female patient --- Darrie Eason, 35, had a double mastectomy due to a lab mix-up. A lab technician with CBL Path Medical lab in Rye Brook, New York allegedly mislabeled a pair of tissue samples resulting in Eason's misdiagnosis of invasive lobular carcinoma, a form of breast cancer. Eason has filed a lawsuit against CBL Path Medical lab for an unspecified amount of damages. Once the lawsuit was filed, state investigators determined that the lab technician was engaging in a practice known as "batching" - handling multiple tissue samples at one time as opposed to handling samples individually. CBL Path Medical lab chief executive, William Curtis, has verified that both the lab technician and the doctor involved in Eason's case are no longer with the company.
