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Personal Injury & Torts

Mar. 31, 1999

Jury Awards $1.2M for Misread Pap Smear Test

SANTA BARBARA - Maria Wellman wanted to live long enough to see her three sons baptized. She also wanted enough time to gain retribution from the medical laboratory she believed misread a routine Pap smear in 1993.

By B. Scott Bortnick
Special to the Daily Journal
        SANTA BARBARA - Maria Wellman wanted to live long enough to see her three sons baptized. She also wanted enough time to gain retribution from the medical laboratory she believed misread a routine Pap smear in 1993.
        The misdiagnosis proved fatal...

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