The Dinizulu Law Group represented a patient against a local hospital who failed to follow the nationally accepted cancer guidelines by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network which resulted in the patient having their pancreas, spleen and part of their intestines removed without having a positive biopsy for cancer first.
The local hospital failed to enforce its policies and procedures to do the additional testing for cancer as was mandated. Despite the local hospital’s annual report stating they strictly complied with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, which required them to repeat the biopsy to run additional tests and send the results to a roundtable discussion of medical professionals, the surgeon rushed the patient to surgery to remove a pancreatic mass that was not cancerous. As a result of that unnecessary surgery, there were several complications, including sepsis, and the need for a colostomy bag.
