Medical Malpractice Trial to Begin against Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Posted on Jan 7, 2010 2:26pm PST
New York -- This week, a medical malpractice trial is set to begin against Vassar Brothers Medical Center and a deceased physician.
45 year old Martha Meyer of Poughkeepsie filed the lawsuit because she had become permanently disabled after a
surgery that was performed at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in 2003. She needed the operation to remove an ulcer that was causing her medical problems. In her medical malpractice lawsuit, she lists the center and Dr. Barr Jordan (deceased) as defendants.
In the court documents that were filed, Meyer states that Dr. Jordan performed her surgery on September 12, 2003. She was discharged from the hospital 3 days later on September 16th, but was readmitted a few days later because she was experiencing abdominal pain. Later, doctors found that Meyer had internal bleeding and a damaged spleen. She also suffered brain damage and related injuries due to the blood she lost.
The case will be presided over by Supreme Court Justice James V. Brands and will take place in the Dutchess County Courthouse. Witnesses started testifying earlier this week.
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