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...Middlesex Superior Court awarded cancer patient Gena Glicklich nearly $400,000 in damages, and determined that Dr. Alan R. Spievack--one of the UHS doctors--was responsible for $339,979 of that figure...
...testimony last week, Dr. Alan Spievack, one of the UHS physicians named in the suit, said he advised Glicklich to have a mammogrem x-ray test, adding that the results of the test convinced him that the lump was not cancerous...
Robbins, however, said that Spievack should not have based his diagnosis on the X-ray test, which he said often yields inaccurate results. Robbins also criticized the conduct of another defendant, Dr. Joan Golub, a private gynecologist Glicklich first consulted after discovering the lump...
When Glicklich finally had a biopsy in July, 1979--three months after seeing Spievack and 11 months after she first noticed a lump in her right breast -the tumor had grown from one to ten centimeters and was then inoperable, her attorney said...
...defense claims that the lump found by Spievack in April, 1979, had disappeared when Glicklich was reexamined by Dr. Herbert B. Hechtman, associate professor of Surgery and a surgeon at UHS, in June of that year. That indicates that the lump Spievack reported was noncancerous, defense attorney Raymond J. Kenney Jr., said yesterday...