N.S. woman wrongly diagnosed with terminal cancer: ‘Absolutely devastating’
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Gabriella Patey, 31, was initially told her breast tumour was benign. Later, she was told she had terminal cancer. A third call informed her it was all a terrible mistake.
A week ago, 31-year-old Gabriella Patey was told she had advanced-stage breast cancer and was expected to have only months to live.
Armed with the “grim diagnosis” that had also claimed her mother’s life, Patey began telling family and friends and making end-of-life preparations.
“I put a claim in through my bank for critical illness insurance and just put my name on the list for medically assisted dying,” the Halifax-area woman said.
“I just came to terms with it. This is what it was, just absolutely devastating.”
But days later, Patey’s family physician called with shocking news.
“I got another call from my primary care physician stating, actually, there had been a critical patient error at the IWK (Health Centre). And the file with the grim diagnosis did not even belong to me,” she said.
“I didn’t even really believe her. I mean why should I? They had made this mistake once, how could they make it again?”
Patey first discovered a lump in her breast in October 2023, just a few weeks after her mother died of breast cancer.
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