N.S woman receives apology following false cancer diagnosis – CTV
June 12, 202
Just eight days after Nova Scotian Gabriella Patey claims she was told her breast cancer diagnosis was meant for someone else, she says she’s received an apology from the IWK.
“I received a verbal apology yesterday afternoon and a formal amendment showing the correct diagnosis and that the 2nd diagnosis did not belong to my file,” Patey told CTV News Atlantic Thursday via text.
Andrea Slaney, a spokesperson for the IWK, told CTV News Atlantic in an email Thursday they have been in contact with the patient, but cannot comment further due to patient privacy.
Health Minister Michelle Thompson called Patey’s situation “stressful” at a cabinet meeting in Halifax Thursday.
“I know that the health-care system makes mistakes sometimes. I acknowledge that, certainly (with) my experience as a health-care worker, that has happened. What’s essential is, number one, that we reach out to those patients when those things happen and we speak directly to them and understand the experience. And also, we then go back and look at the system and understand where that mistake or that policy or that standard wasn’t met or didn’t follow through,” says Thompson.
