The Nation - News from May 3, 1985
New York won’t file medical misconduct charges against doctors in the case of a pregnant woman who was wrongly injected with an anti-cancer drug that induced a coma and will likely result in her death, officials said in Albany. An investigation of the injection of the drug into the spine rather than the bloodstream of cancer patient Lillian Cedeno, 21, concluded that procedural deficiencies, now corrected, at the Albany Medical Center helped create a situation that allowed the error to occur, Health Commissioner David Axelrod said.
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