MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Jury sides with doctor sued over double mastectomy
A general surgeon who was blamed for scars following a double mastectomy wasn’t negligent, a jury found on July 26. Lisa Allen underwent the procedure performed by Dr. Darioush Kavouspour. She claimed that his incisions were unnecessarily large and shouldn’t have crossed the sternum. The incision became a keloid scar across her midline and cleavage and remains painful. The defense argued that Kavouspour acted reasonably and that the size of the incisions was a function of the need to remove all of Allen’s breast tissue. Breast cancer is aggressive, and Allen, a young woman with three young children, did not want Kavouspour to risk leaving any breast tissue behind, defense counsel argued.
