{"id":2415,"date":"2016-02-02T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.com\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2016-08-30T16:19:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T21:19:35","slug":"15-6-million-jury-verdict-laboratory-erroneously-interpreted-pap-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/15-6-million-jury-verdict-laboratory-erroneously-interpreted-pap-smear\/","title":{"rendered":"$15.6 Million Jury Verdict Against Laboratory that Erroneously Interpreted a Pap Smear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darian Wisekal had a pap smear in August 2008. The slide was sent to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labcorp.com\/wps\/portal\">Laboratory Corporation of America<\/a> Holdings (LabCorp). A LabCorp technologist errantly interpreted the slide as \u201cnegative for intraepithelial lesion and malignancy.\u201d A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcancer.org\/gynecologic-cancers\/prevention\/pre-cancerous-conditions\/squamous-intraepithelial-lesion\">squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL)<\/a> is an abnormal growth of cells on the surface of the cervix, commonly referred to as squamous cells. When diagnosed, this condition may lead to cervical cancer but can be diagnosed using a pap smear. Wisekal died of cervical cancer some three years after the errant read of the slides. She was survived by her husband and two daughters.<\/p>\n<p>John Wisekal, Darian\u2019s husband and her personal representative of the estate, filed a medical malpractice and wrongful death case in Florida\u2019s state court. The lawsuit was removed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisekal family claimed that as a result of the misread, Wisekal\u2019s cervical cancer spread and became untreatable. The defendants denied a standard of care failure and also maintained that the disease, cervical cancer, which was the cause of her premature death, was not subject to diagnosis in 2008. The defendants argued that even if the LabCorp cytotechnologist had correctly interpreted the relevant<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/women\/guide\/pap-smear\"> Pap smear<\/a> as atypical, she would not have presented with cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/15-6-million-jury-verdict-laboratory-erroneously-interpreted-pap-smear\/#more-2415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darian Wisekal had a pap smear in August 2008. The slide was sent to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp). A LabCorp technologist errantly interpreted the slide as \u201cnegative for intraepithelial lesion and malignancy.\u201d A squamous intraepithelial lesion (SIL) is an abnormal growth of cells on the surface of the cervix, commonly referred to as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misdiagnosing-cancer","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$15.6 Million Jury Verdict Against Laboratory that Erroneously Interpreted a Pap Smear &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Darian Wisekal had a pap smear in August 2008. 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