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Boston Personal Injury Lawyer
In 1980, he won a landmark state court ruling that allows people to sue physicians for malpractice even when medical errors don’t come to light until long after treatment has ended. Fifteen years later, he negotiated a settlement for the husband of Betsy Lehman, a Boston Globe health columnist who died in 1994 after receiving a massive overdose of a cancer drug at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The fatal error helped spur a national patient safety movement.
Now Mone, 75, says that despite everything he knows about what can go wrong in a hospital, he himself has become a victim of medical malpractice. Mone has inoperable kidney cancer that has spread to his spine and shoulder.
“I’m dying,” he says, without a hint of self-pity, sharing his story publicly for the first time.
It dates to 2009, when he had an MRI scan at a Boston teaching hospital. It was a precautionary test — Mone had a long history of kidney stones. The scan found nothing ominous, according to the written radiology report that he shared with the Globe.
But the report was wrong, Mone says — a malignant tumor in his left kidney was misidentified as a benign cyst. By the time the cancer was found in 2015, it had metastasized, according to two New York doctors Mone later consulted. During those six years in stealth mode, one of them wrote, the disease became “incurable and probably terminal.”
Mone credits two Massachusetts physicians — both former clients — with helping him to get the right diagnosis and pinpoint the mistake that will likely cost him his life. In a twist that brings the story full circle, one of those doctors hadn’t been told of a malignant tumor spotted on his own chest in a 1974 X-ray. It was that lapse that led to the pivotal 1980 court ruling. After surviving the cancer, the client had gone on to become a radiologist.
