Atlanta mom Cassandra Barksdale misdiagnosed with aggressive cancer, underwent full hysterectomy after lab mix-up: lawsuit

An Atlanta mom was told she had an aggressive form of cancer and underwent a full hysterectomy – before it later emerged the operation was completely unnecessary due to a lab mix-up, according to court documents. Cassandra Barksdale, 43, learned she apparently had just years to live when doctors gave her the results from another patient’s biopsy last March, according to a lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday and viewed by The Post. She went to the Kaiser Permanente Southwood Medical Center in Jonesboro, Georgia, last January to have her uterine fibroids checked over after experiencing bleeding. A biopsy was carried…

Double Chicken Please is bringing its bizarrely brilliant food-inspired cocktails, hot honey chicken and buzzed-about bartending magic to West Hollywood this month. New York’s cocktail crown jewel is packing its shakers and heading west — giving Angelenos a taste of its wildly inventive booze-fueled madness. The wildly inventive Lower East…

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10 Ways Small Businesses Can Use AI To Grow–And Even Hire More Workers

A quartet of witnesses testifying this week to the House Small Business Committee disputed the commonly-held belief that artificial intelligence will displace human workers and insisted that small businesses which use AI are likely to wind up having to hire more employees–because they’ll grow.Already, a majority of small businesses are…

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Southern California city crowned best place to beat hangovers as Golden State dominates national rankings

Irvine isn’t exactly known as party central. But it turns out nobody nurses a bender better. The famously buttoned-up Orange County city has been crowned the best-equipped place in America to survive the morning after, topping a ranking of 75 major US cities for hangover recovery convenience. And California didn’t stop after last call. Long Beach landed in third place, while Oakland and Stockton staggered into sixth and seventh — giving the Golden State four of the top seven spots nationwide. Irvine blitzed the competition with enough caffeine, juice, brunch and IV hydration listings to perk up even the rowdiest of…

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