Woman to Sue Over Breast Mistake

A woman whose breast was removed after she was wrongly diagnosed with cancer has branded a £44,000 compensation offer 'an insult' and is to sue the health authority responsible.


But doctors at NHS Highland's Raigmore Hospital in Inverness later admitted that they had been looking at another patient's tissue sample and had made a mistake. Mrs Patterson, of Alness in Ross-shire, was offered £44,000 compensation by the hospital, but said the amount was an "insult" and now plans to take her case to the Court of Session.

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