If you or someone you know get diagnosed with breast cancer, getting your breasts removed (a mastectomy) would be a welcome but difficult surgery. Your breasts would be gone, but so would your cancer! But for at least two (five more under investigation) women their biopsy reports were misread and their breasts were removed by Dr. Heartwell of Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor when they really didn't have any cancer at all. This goes to show that people are not perfect, and even a doctor with 28 years of experience can make errors. The doctor has admitted that, "It is my fault that this happened, not the hospital's, this is my mistake". What an awful thing to live with. It's hard to say if it could of been avoided or not because we don't know the whole story. We don't know how it was misread, and if maybe another doctor took a look at it he/she would have seen the results for what they really were. Dr. Heartwell and the pathologist are both under investigation and in the mean time have been suspended from practicing medicine.
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