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Gould’s wife, Rhonda Roland Shearer, now claims that the doctors—an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and two radiologists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital—overlooked a centimeter-wide lesion in the upper lobe of his lung that later became cancerous...
According to Shearer, the lawsuit emerged after she attempted to determine why her husband’s condition was not detected sooner. When earlier this year she showed experts an X-ray of her husband’s chest taken in Feb. 2001, 13 months before the cancer was detected, the experts told her that they were able to see the lesion which led to Gould’s death...
...never heard about this X-ray with the one centimeter lesion [from the hospital],” Shearer said...
...suit, Shearer also alleges that in the period during and after Gould’s diagnosis in New York, doctors at the Harvard-affiliated hospitals reviewed the treatment that Gould received and determined in private meetings that the Feb. 2001 X-ray did indeed show the lesion...
...Nevertheless, no disclosure was ever made to Professor Gould during his lifetime or to [Shearer] to this date by the defendants, or Dana-Farber or Brigham and Women’s, of that knowledge,” the suit reads...