While visiting my friend, I came across another tragic case of wrong
diagnosis and treatment. A middle-aged lady suffering from recurrent
headaches had come to meet the neurosurgeon, who had ordered a CT scan.
After analysing the reports, he diagnosed that there was a tumour in
the left temporal lobe that had to be removed surgically as it was
putting pressure on the brain. She walked into the operation theatre,
but came out supine - the surgery removed her tumour but left her
paralysed along her right side.The doctors attributed the paralysis to
another tumour that was developing behind the original one. However,
they could not assure the lady that she would recover even if she
underwent another surgery to remove the second malignant tumour.