Michael Santopietro v. Elizabeth Lach-Pasko et al.: Patients who think they have been victims of medical malpractice can face a daunting battle getting the evidence – even when the evidence is literally their own flesh and blood.
Such was the case for Torrington school bus driver Michael Santopietro, who was diagnosed with lung cancer at Charlotte Hungerford hospital in his hometown. A radiologist took a tiny biopsy with a vacuum needle, inserted through Santopietro’s side, guiding the point to the small dot on his lung while using a CAT-scan. The chief of pathology at the hospital, Dr. Elizabeth Lach-Pasko, unequivocally diagnosed the biopsy material as cancerous.
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