Health & Fitness
Doctor's License Temporarily Revoked After Bethel Man Dies From Pancreatic Cancer
A Bethel man's primary care doctor was fined $4,000 for failing to make a timely cancer diagnosis. The patient later died of the disease.
Connecticut’s state Medical Examining Board fined a former Brookfield primary care doctor $4,000 and temporarily revoked his license for three months after they say he failed to make a timely diagnosis of pancreatic cancer for a Bethel man who later died from the disease, according to the New Haven Register.
Dr. Robert Jarrett, who also practices at Danbury Hospital, was notified that a CT scan in December 2011 showed his patient had potential malignancies in his pancreas and liver. Jarrett and his physician assistant did not follow up with the radiologist or order more tests.
Jarrett failed to diagnose the cancer until July 2012 after ordering an image for another symptom. The man passed away in January 2013.
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