Recent Posts in Surgical Error Category
Posted on Jun 6, 2017
On February 20 th, 2017, Christopher Duntsch was convicted of maiming an elderly woman, who is now confined to a wheelchair. His criminal history includes maiming at least 4 people and killing 2. He ...
Posted on Feb 24, 2017
Every year, about 90,000,000 surgeries are performed in the United States. In about 2,000 to 4,000 of those procedures, surgeons make a simple but grave mistake: they leave one of their tools behind. ...
Posted on Aug 5, 2014
A widower claims in court that his wife's death was due to physicians' failure to retrieve a sponge that was left behind for 15 months in her abdomen following surgery, as reported by the ...
Posted on Jun 3, 2014
The Indy Star has reported that due to the "medical battery" a veteran suffered at the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Indianapolis, a lawsuit has been filed against the VA that ...
Posted on May 14, 2014
A widower has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a physician and medical care offices claiming that after his wife had Botox injections she suffered with botulism, which led to her death eleven ...
Posted on Apr 4, 2014
A woman in the Ohio area is reportedly suing her doctor over claims that her gallbladder removal surgery was performed negligently. According to reports, she filed the suit that she suffered abdominal ...
Posted on Jan 27, 2014
The Bulletin newspaper from Bend, Oregon, has reported that the daughter of a woman who died after an elective surgery in 2010 has filed a lawsuit naming the St. Charles Health System for negligence. ...
Posted on Sep 6, 2013
As reported by the Lake Wylie Pilot a medical malpractice lawsuit has been settled and the family of a woman that died, due to two misplaced breathing tubes inserted during a routine out-patient ...
Posted on Jul 19, 2012
A former Orem, Utah plastic surgeon is reportedly facing medical malpractice allegations. According to reports, he was allegedly performing an abdominoplasty and liposuction procedure that left a ...
Posted on Jun 6, 2012
Alabama.com has reported the story of a woman that was awarded over $100,000 in a medical malpractice suit she had filed against a medical center after enduring two breast surgeries instead of one ...
Posted on Jun 5, 2012
A widow has filed a lawsuit after the Medical Examining Board failed to do more in disciplining an MD who's surgical mistake cost her husband his life, as reported by the News Times from New ...
Posted on May 30, 2012
The Huffington Post, Miami Herald and Local 10 have reported that a man is suing the anesthesiologist that put him under before an elective surgery for erectile dysfunction, as 9 days later the man ...
Posted on May 1, 2012
As reported by the Courthouse News Service, a woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a plastic surgeon that tried out a new liposuction device on her, which had yet to pass FDA ...
Posted on Aug 23, 2011
A Kentucky man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a surgeon that amputated his penis, allegedly to remove cancerous tissue, without informing him or asking for his consent, as reported by ...
Posted on May 18, 2011
First Coast News, from Jacksonville, Fla., has reported that a 75 year-old woman has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against a hospital because they left an undetected staple in her Aorta that has ...
Posted on Apr 23, 2011
A medical malpractice lawsuit has reportedly been filed in regard to a hysterectomy matter. According to reports, the woman is accusing the doctor of perforating her large intestine and puncturing her ...
Posted on Mar 9, 2011
A report is allegedly showing that surgical mistakes may be more common than patients believe them to be. According to the American Medical Association, about 98,000 people lose their lives each year ...
Posted on Dec 30, 2010
One hospital in Boston has had three surgical mistakes occur there since September 2010. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has had situations where the wrong vertebrae was worked on during spinal ...
Posted on Dec 18, 2010
In the Bellaire, Texas area, a botched spinal surgery has reportedly led to a medical malpractice case. A doctor has been sued after a patient has been left permanently paralyzed and unable to control ...
Posted on Nov 15, 2010
A widow has announced that she will be filing a lawsuit against the Jacksonville Mayo Clinic for the hepatitis C infection her husband acquired there during two liver transplant surgeries, that ...
Posted on Aug 24, 2010
As reported by Channel 9 News Denver, Richard Gellar, 61, of Aurora, Colorado, is suing the Denver VA Medical Center after surgeons left a clamp behind during his triple coronary artery bypass on ...
Posted on Aug 13, 2010
Jack and Connie Plumlee are suing a Tulsa surgeon whom set Connie on fire during a breast reconstruction surgery at Saint Johns Medical Center last December. As reported by News On 6, Connie Plumlee ...