In 2008, the verdict of the University Hospital of Nancy is without appeal. The victim, who consults for joint pain, is suffering from myopathy. A diagnostic error which changed the life of this patient in 6 years of heavy treatments and anguish. This medical error was also established for her 8-year-old daughter.
Following this news, the victim had to undergo rehabilitation sessions two days a week and an occupational therapist rearranged his accommodation.
“The announcement of this disease made me live in slow motion, it was a vicious circle”, she explained to AFP, specifying that she was no longer receiving any treatment today.
“After this diagnosis made by the hospital, and without trying to find out more, occupational medicine placed her on total disability. She also underwent drug treatment, the consequences of which cannot be measured, ”explained her lawyer, Me Yves-Pierre Joffroy.
But in 2014, a new neurologist worries about the contradictions and anomalies in this medical file. After re-examination of this clinical case, the doctors are formal. The patient does not have myopathy.
“We told her that she had not had myopathy and that it was necessary to plan for withdrawal from the drug treatment she was receiving,” explains Me Joffroy, the patient’s lawyer. However, they were unable to determine what illness she was suffering from.
The Nancy University Hospital informed AFP in a press release that “the elements presented do not seem to reflect the complexity of the files whose examination was requested from independent medical experts”. The establishment refuses to speak “on the medical follow-up of patients or on ongoing procedures”.
In December 2014, the Nancy University Hospital already made the headlines in health news. Indeed, a 40-year-old Moselle man revealed that the hospital had in 2004 wrongly diagnosed him for Alzheimer’s disease.
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