Portis v. Greenhaw

NEWTON, Judge.

Donna Portis, the decedent, received a mammogram on June 15, 1994, and Dr. James Greenhaw, a radiologist at Community Hospital Association, Inc., (hereafter referred to as the hospital,) read it the following day. He concluded that some scattered small microcalcifications were present but failed to identify the cancerousmasses that were present in the mammogram.

Approximately one month later, Ms. Portis felt a firmness in her right breast. She sought treatment from her family doctor, Dr. James Hunter, on December 8, 1994. Dr. Hunter recommended that Ms. Portis have another…