In South Dakota, Dena Knapp went in to a operation to remove a mass on her adrenal gland.
Although the Doctor did get the memo that the day before what to eliminate, and he did get the memo after surgery that he had removed the wrong organ, he continued to misrepresent the situation to his patient .
She finally had the appropriate procedure performed, but in another hospital in Minnesota, and is now suing for the loss of her healthy kidney.
Knapp went into operation on October 5, 2016 to have her right adrenal gland, and its corresponding mass, eliminated. Later that day, the pathology department at Avara McKennan Hospital informed Baker that he’d eliminated her liver, maybe not her adrenal gland.
In actuality, the adrenal gland, and its mass, were still within Knapp.
On October 7, 2016, Baker told Knapp that he had not heard back from the hospital concerning the biopsy of the adrenal mass, and on October 11th, told Knapp that he”didn’t get everything” and Knapp wanted another operation.
That is a gross misrepresentation of what occurred, to say the least.
Since the operation, Knapp claims she’s succumbed to an incurable advanced kidney disease in her gut, and that she suffers from pain, fatigue, depression, and psychological distress because of the physician’s malpractice.
The filing also claims Knapp has incurred costs in excess of $96,000 and $42,000 worth of earnings; those expenses will continue to rise before the case is settled or adjudicated.
Legal Treatment for Wrong-Site Surgeries
The hospital has already barred Baker from additional surgeries. In most wrong-site surgeries, medical malpractice is quite easy to prove.
In 1 study, just a third of wrong-site instances lead to a malpractice suit, and the average payment was less than $81,000 in cases leading to a litigation and $47,000 in people resolved without legal action.
These are probably where there was little irreparable harm to the plaintiff.
But in 2013, a Pennsylvania jury awarded a 54 year old guy $620,000 for pain and suffering and $250,000 in punitive damages, after it was discovered his surgeon was”recklessly indifferent” in eliminating the incorrect testicle. And in 2010, a jury awarded $20 million io a 15 year old Arkansas boy who had been left untreated and with severe brain damage after surgery on the wrong side of the boy’s brain. In that case, the error wasn’t revealed to his parents for more than a year.
In case you’ve been the victim of a wrong-site operation, or another type of medical malpractice in California, and you would like a free consultation call our expert medical malpractice law lawyers now for a free consultation at 800-816-1529. norman-law.com
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