Anthony Olson was told that he’d die without the treatment and to ignore a negative biopsy. He’s one of many patients who may have received harmful or unnecessary treatments from Montana oncologist Dr. Thomas C. Weiner, according to court records.

Anthony Olson was told that he’d die without the treatment and to ignore a negative biopsy. He’s one of many patients who may have received harmful or unnecessary treatments from Montana oncologist Dr. Thomas C. Weiner, according to court records.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      I don’t think he did it purposefully. He sounds like an extreme narcissist and couldn’t comprehend being incorrect about an initial diagnosis.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        18 hours ago

        His diagnosis was never based on evidence. There was no biopsy at all.

        You’re right that he didn’t wake up and decide to misdiagnose people as having cancer just to be evil and ruin his life, he decided it because if he did, he could earn extreme amounts of money. The actual medical practice was irrelevant to him.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          17 hours ago

          The article clearly states it was based off of a biopsy. There was a 2nd biopsy done several months later that shown negative and the doc said it was because the treatment was working. The article further states that “come to find out” the biopsy test for that disease has a high false positive rate.

          Did you only skim the article, or not read it at all?

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
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      2 days ago

      and this highlights a problem with insurance. likely there are other people with cancer but they don’t have good enough insurance so better to treat someone who doesn’t but does have good insurance.