By mstratton | posted on May 31st, 2012
Corbeil, Administrator v. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Filed Windham Superior Court, VT, 2011)
The decedent owned an award winning community radio station, and was married with two children. Dr. Mahler, a pulmonologist, found a suspicious tumor during examination in 2007. The doctor did not disclose this finding until after the tumor metastasized and caused the decedent’s death in 2009. Our oncology consultants tell us that the tumor was easily treatable in 2007, and the death of the plaintiff’s decedent was absolutely preventable with proper disclosure. Our pulmonology expert asserts without hesitation that a doctor must share all suspicious findings with his or her patients.