US EditionFalse Cancer Diagnosis Due to Name Equivalence in Linz Hospital
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Wine 54-year-old received the diagnosis of breast cancer in an ambulance. Later, it became clear that the X-ray picture was another patient's.
An apparent coincidence of names led to a doctor at the Linz Kepler University Hospital (KUK) confusing the medical records of two patients and shocking one of them with devastating news.
LINZ. Due to a confusion of names, a misdiagnosis of cancer has been made with a 54-year-old – the physician and the Kepler-Klinikum deny this allegation
A woman from the Mühlviertel received a cancer diagnosis in the hospital, which later turned out to be a mistake. A name similarity probably led to the mistake. At the Kepler University Hospital there was apparently a serious patient confusion. As reported by the Kronen Zeitung, a 54-year-old woman from the Mühlviertel first received the diagnosis of breast cancer at the beginning of February, although she was not the patient concerned at all. T…
A 54-year-old miller received a false breast cancer diagnosis. The case quickly resolved in conversation with the doctor at the Linz University Hospital Kepler.
The woman received information during her consultation with the doctor at the breast center of the KUK.
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