Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Yields $3M Award
A Philadelphia jury awarded more than $3 million to a woman who filed a medical malpractice lawsuit after her colon cancer went undiagnosed for almost two years. On June 13, 2006, Marlene Goncalves, 34 at the time, went to the emergency room at Jeanes Hospital, complaining of bloody stools and lower abdominal pain. Dr. Mark G. Brown, a radiologist with Northeast Imaging Associates of Philadelphia, performed a CT scan on her abdomen and pelvis and found nothing. Goncalves