(DOWNLOAD) "Deboer V. Brown" by Arizona Supreme Court ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Deboer V. Brown
- Author : Arizona Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 16, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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The facts before us are uncontested for purposes of this review. In August, 1976, Calvin L. Dotson, the plaintiff below, was being treated for various skin problems by dermatologist Daniel C. DeBoer, M.D., the defendant below. DeBoer excised a skin sample from a lesion on Dotson's back. The sample was mounted onto a slide, examined by DeBoer, and diagnosed as a compound nevus or common wart. Dotson was told of the diagnosis and that he need not undergo further examination or treatment of the "wart." From August, 1976 until April, 1980, Dotson neither saw nor felt any change in the lesion. The lesion had, however, begun to grow internally sometime during 1979. In April, 1980, physicians treating Dotson for an unrelated condition diagnosed the lesion as a malignant melanoma, a tumor with a "marked tendency to metastasis," Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary 790 (26th ed. 1981). The slide made by DeBoer in 1976 was reexamined and revealed that the lesion had been a melanoma when initially evaluated by DeBoer. Dotson's chances for five year survival given appropriate medical treatment had decreased from 95% in 1976 to only 50-75% in 1980.