Medical Errors
New Mexico doctors face license loss
Published in Cancer Weekly, March 30th, 2004
James Neidhart, MD, and his son, Jeff Neidhart, MD, are accused of giving a patient four times the recommended dosage of chemotherapy in 2003. They allegedly failed to report the overdose from May 1 to May 7, 2003, to either the patient or to the radiation oncologist.
The patient, Larry Gille, 48, of Farmington died June 1, 2003, in an Albuquerque hospital, about 1 month after receiving the overdose of the cancer drug mitomycin.
No decision was made March 11, 2004, after a...
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