A ruling in Connecticut Superior Court found that Elizabeth Lach-Pasko, M.D. was negligent in her pathology findings, misdiagnosing the plaintiff with an aggressive cancer requiring immediate resection and removal of a lobe of his lung when there was actually no malignancy present.<\/p>\n
In Hartford on June 17, 2009, a Superior Court jury in Michael Santopietro vs. Elizabeth Lach-Pasko, M.D. awarded $1.56 million to the plaintiff, 67-year-old Canton resident Michael Santopietro, finding that Dr. Elizabeth Lach-Pasko, director of the Department of Pathology at Charlotte-Hungerford Hospital, was negligent in her pathology findings, misdiagnosing the plaintiff with cancer requiring immediate resection and removal of a lobe of his lung when there was actually no cancer present.<\/p>\n
Santopietro had recently retired from his job driving a handicap van for children with special needs in 2005 when he underwent a needle aspiration (biopsy) of his lung, which was submitted to the Department of Pathology at Charlotte-Hungerford Hospital where (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A ruling in Connecticut Superior Court found that Elizabeth Lach-Pasko, M.D. was negligent in her pathology findings, misdiagnosing the plaintiff with an aggressive cancer requiring immediate resection and removal of a lobe of his lung when there was actually no…<\/span><\/p>\n