A medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed alleging that a doctor failed to inform his patient that the patient had cancer.<\/p>\n
Amber Hines is pursuing the lawsuit her father, Edward Hines, filed before his death from bladder cancer in April 2013. The lawsuit alleges that a urologist practicing at Oak Park’s West Suburban Medical Center removed a tumor from Hines’ bladder in 2011, then informed him that he was free of cancer. According to the lawsuit, a pathology report issued a week later revealed that the patient had bladder cancer, but the doctor failed to inform him.<\/p>\n
According to the lawsuit, Hines did not learn he had cancer until a year later, when he visited a different doctor. The suit alleges that Hines would have had a greater chance for survival if he had learned of the diagnosis earlier.<\/p>\n
In court documents, the doctor contested Hines’ version of events, saying that the patient was (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed alleging that a doctor failed to inform his patient that the patient had cancer. Amber Hines is pursuing the lawsuit her father, Edward Hines, filed before his death from bladder cancer in April…<\/span><\/p>\n