Two women had their breasts removed by accident, wrongly really, they were told they had breast cancer, each received a treatment of a full mastectomy and lymph nodes removed before it was found out that they didn't actually have breast cancer.
Laurie Johnston of Leamington, Ont., had a mastectomy last November from Heartwell, who admitted she misread the results of a needle biopsy that found Johnston did not have cancer.
Janice Laporte, whose breast was removed by Heartwell in September 2001, was told a week after her surgery that she didn't have cancer.
A probe was called and the results were that the wrong diagnosis fell with in the acceptable limits of statistical margin of error of pathology reports.
However, the report concluded that Williams' error rate was within an acceptable range as quoted in medical literature.
They also noted that the Pathologist's cataract condition has no effect on how they read the pathology reports.
Dr. Barry McLellan, who led the four-month probe, said he couldn't say whether cataracts contributed to potential errors by Williams, as alleged in an internal report by health officials.
"We certainly did not find any evidence to support any physical or medical condition contributing to any increase in rate because we didn't see that increase in rate over time," he said in Windsor.
Whoosh that's good to know!
The surgeon has had her surgery rights fully reinstated at the hospital in question.
Oh my this is confusing , if all concerned did nothing wrong then why would they publish the following?
McLellan said his team was also concerned with "unproductive relationships" between doctors, senior management and the board of directors that existed at Hotel-Dieu for more than a decade.
"It is difficult to advance a quality agenda... unless you have good working relationships in the hospital," he said.
However, patients should share his confidence that facilities will resolve the issues as a result of the investigation, he said.
"There's little doubt that the lessons learned here in Windsor are valuable ones," McLellan said.
"They're lessons that hospitals across the province can look to and learn from. Ultimately, they will strengthen the quality of health care in Ontario."
Malcolm Maxwell, CEO of the Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, was appointed Wednesday as facilitator to oversee the implementation of the report's recommendations.
Yesterday the Ontario opposition called for the reining government to apologize to these ladies, I think they are right, perhaps a nice handcrafted card to show their personal sincere concern would be in order. That would be nice.
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