Authors couldn’t find a patient to give consent for case report. Then the patient found the report.
When a group of authors decided to write up a curious case of a 35-year-old woman with a mysterious mass that took 11 years to be diagnosed, they tried repeatedly to contact the patient for her permission. When they couldn’t reach her, they published the paper anyway, removing any identifiable information. But the report apparently included … Continue reading Authors couldn’t find a patient to give consent for case report. Then the patient found the report.