A Boston jury returned a verdict on Wednesday awarding $2.5 million in damages in a medical malpratice case involving a woman wrongly diagnosed with HIV. Audrey Serrano was told by her doctor that she had HIV. She was treated for 9 years with medication before learning she never actually had the virus that causes AIDS.
In her lawsuit, Serrano claimed her doctor, Kwan Lai, who worked at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester’s HIV clinic, failed to order definitive tests, even after monitoring revealed Serrano’s blood did not show the presence of HIV.
Serrano had herself tested at another hospital in 2003 and discovered then that she did not have the virus.
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