A doctor has been charged with professional misconduct after prescribing diet pills to a woman with a 32-pound abdominal cyst. The victim, a 44-year-old mother of three, visited the doctor four times between 2002 and 2004 complaining of pain and was told she needed to lose weight. After an emergency trip to the hospital, the woman had the cyst surgically removed.
Mike Heron, the woman’s lawyer, states the case is not about the doctor’s failure to diagnose an ovarian cyst, but it’s about failure to recognize she had an abnormal and very distended abdomen. Heron alleges the doctor did not follow proper procedures for assessing, examining and investigating the woman’s symptoms.
Following emergency surgery, the woman’s weight dropped from 163 pounds to 125 pounds. She was extremely malnourished at the time of her surgery.
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