Stephanie Tesorioro v. Paul R. Fisher M.D.

Stephanie Tesorioro, a breast cancer victim who went to the Carol Baldwin Breast Cancer Center with a complaint of a lump and was wrongly told that everything was okay. Her Attorney, Robert V. Fallarino, reported that Dr. Paul R. Fisher failed to see abnormalities on mammography and failed to do a simple test, a sonography, of the area where the patient felt the lump. Due to these failures, Stephanie Tesorioro, the mother of three children (all 10 and under), missed her opportunity to have the cancer diagnosed at the earliest possible time. Instead, 16 months later, the cancer, due to this failure to diagnose, spread to her lymph nodes and bones.



The trial encompassed over two weeks in front of Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Hector LaSalle who sits in Central Islip. The jury heard testimony from Stephanie's expert, a Board Certified Radiologist, about what steps should have been taken by Dr. Fisher when he treated Stephanie in October 2002. In addition, there was expert testimony from a surgical oncologist who explained to the jury how the cancer traveled from the breast throughout her body and what Dr. Fisher's negligent care will mean for Stephanie and her family.

Plaintiff's verdict for $15 million.