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New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Recommends Cancer Patients Take Precautionary Steps Before Undergoing Radiation Therapy
Date:3/29/2010

he handled recently involving a teenage girl with Hodgkin’s disease who suffered a devastating injury as a result of misdirected radiation.

“Her oncologist,” Gurfein explained, “designed a filter to block radiation from reaching her young ovaries. But the technician who built the filter carelessly omitted the blocks. It wasn’t until ninety percent of the therapy had been administered that her doctors discovered the omission. By then her ovaries were destroyed.”

Gurfein noted that in his almost 40 years in practice as a New York medical malpractice lawyer, approximately 50% of all medical malpractice claims are caused by less then 5% of all doctors.

For this reason, Gurfein recommends, patients should always check their doctor’s references. One good source of information is the New York State Department of Health website, which can be found by entering the following web address: www.health.state.ny.us/professionals/doctors/conduct . Patients should also “Google” their doctor’s name and see what comes up. And, of course, the most obvious step is to ask family, friends and neighbors for a referral.
   
“Although not all doctors who are negligent do so over and over again,” he said. “It is statistically probable that where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

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