OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian woman who went through six months of chemotherapy after falsely being told she had cancer is suing the doctor who made the wrong diagnosis, CBC television said on Thursday.

Lavallee went to a hospital near Montreal in September 2004 with chest pains and was told her tests showed she had cancer. In the months of treatment that followed, she lost her hair, shed 60 lbs (27 kg) and became anemic—and contracted a dangerous bacterial infection—but in March 2005 another doctor told her she did not have cancer.

I suppose this kind of thing can happen in the US as well as Canada.  On the other hand this lady was getting treatment while other people that actually had cancer were being denied proper service due to the rationing that’s inevitable when the government takes over.  Kinda makes this a double bad tragedy, don’t you think?