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200 Died After Heart Tests Went Unread
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Jaya Saxena
Published May 29, 2010
Modified May 29, 2010
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According to one Harlem Hospital employee, 200 patients who received echocardiogram tests that went unread by doctors have since died. Though the president of the Health and Hospitals Corporation says it's too early to link the deaths to the doctors' failure to read the tests, investigators are determining whether some deaths could have been avoided if the tests had been properly reviewed. One doctor called the situation "preposterous," and told the Times, “This is very, very appalling, and to go on for three years, either the patients are dead or they’re alive by some miracle of God." He is currently diagnosing test recipients who should have been diagnosed up to three years ago.
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