Danbury Hospital Doctor's License Temporarily Revoked After Patient Dies From Pancreatic Cancer

Connecticut’s state Medical Examining Board fined a former Brookfield doctor who now practices at Danbury Hospital $4,000 after they say he failed to make a timely diagnosis of pancreatic cancer for his patient who later died from the disease, according to the New Haven Register.

Dr. Robert Jarrett 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 and failed to diagnose the cancer until July 2012 after ordering an image for another symptom. The man passed away in January 2013.

In another case the Medical Examining Board voted 9-3 not to reprimand Dr. Hal Wasserman, a Danbury cardiologist accused of failing to tell a patient’s referring cardiologist that the man was exposed to prolonged fluoroscopic radiation during a 2007 procedure. The Florida man later developed a burn.

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