Doctor allegedly fails to offer patient hysterectomy
Expert: might have saved woman’s life; $400,000 settlement
A 55-year-old woman had a history of abnormal pap smears with dysplasia. According to the records, the plaintiff again developed abnormal and worrisome cells on her cervix after 10 years of treatment, as evidenced by a pap smear in July 1999. The test read as showing evidence of a high-grade intra-epithelial lesion with severe dysplasia/carcinoma in situ, with changes suggesting extension into the glands.