This case involves a 46-year-old female patient who was seeing a dermatologist for various skin lesions and actinic keratosis management. The patient was advised to use Carac cream as a form of treatment. No biopsies were performed at the time. The lesion …
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This case involves a female patient who was undergoing laser hair removal on her cheek. After beginning her first treatment, the patient got married and moved to another county. She continued laser hair removal treatment at the defendant facility in her ne …
This case involves a 52-year-old female patient who regularly saw a dermatologist. The defendant dermatologist noted an abnormal finding on the patient’s cheek. Although the dermatologist noted the finding in the patient’s records, he failed to ever biopsy …
… Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and eventually died. An expert in dermatology was sought to review the records and opine on whether an earlier …
This case involves a 56-year-old male patient who presented to his dermatologist with a mole on his chin. The dermatologist diagnosed him with an infected hair follicle, prescribed topical treatment, and recommended follow up in 2 weeks. During the fol …
This case involves a dermatologist who was employed as a high-risk physician at a major university hospital in Chicago. The dermatologist was implicated in a severe instance of medical negligence concerning the delayed diagnosis of advanced melanoma result …
This case involves a 52-year-old woman who was treated annually by a dermatologist for lesions. Her dermatologist assessed the lesions on her neck as actinic, and she was treated with liquid nitrogen. Several months later, the lesion on the patient’s …
This case involves a middle-aged female patient that was diagnosed with recurrent basal cell cancer. After several years of treatment, the patient informed her dermatologist that her chest had become disfigured. The patient’s dermatologist noted that t …
This case involves a middle-aged man who underwent a Mohs procedure in order to remove a cancerous lesion from the skin of his face. The lesion was removed from underneath his left eye on the ridge of his cheekbone, and the procedure began with a conservat …
This case takes place in Chicago where a patient underwent a laser resurfacing procedure but ended up with major necrosis on his left side which healed with scarring. The plastic surgeon believes the patient’s use of corticosteroids in the past and his u …