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Delay in diagnosis suit: Refer early

The jury sends a clear message to a PCP in this case of hematuria which turned out to be bladder cancer:

“They realized, in a man over 50 years old who has blood in his urine, it is bladder cancer the majority of the time,” said Gregory Patton, Doniger’s Santa Ana attorney. “The doctor decided that he knew more than urologists do, and he was going to treat it like a kidney stone.”

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