Legal Opinion
West v. BREAST CARE SPECIALISTS, LLC
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided March 25, 2008No. A07A2265PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Adams, Judge.
Margaret West filed a medical malpractice action against Breast Care Specialists, LLC (BCS) and Elizabeth P. Steinhaus, M.D., arising out of Steinhaus’s treatment of a wound from a biopsy performed by the doctor. Steinhaus performed a lumpectomy on West in 2001 in the course of treating her for breast cancer. West’s post-operative recovery from this surgery was uneventful. But she subsequently developed a mass under her lumpectomy scar, and Steinhaus performed a biopsy in September 2002 to determine if a recurrence of breast cancer had occurred. The biopsy demonstrated that the…
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