Patient Seriously Injured During Hysterectomy- Medical Malpractice
The law defines medical malpractice as actions by a medical provider, which deviates from the standard of the medical community, causing harm to a patient. Here is an example of a woman who we will call “Jill”.
Jill underwent a radical hysterectomy surgery because she had been diagnosed with an early stage of cervical cancer. During the surgery, Jill suffered injuries to her ureters (muscular tubes that connect kidneys to the bladder and sustained a puncture to her colon, resulting in a fistula. As a result of these injuries, Jill required a colostomy bag for 8 months and over the course of a year she underwent numerous surgical procedures to repair the injuries.
Jill started a lawsuit against the surgeon and her medcal malpractice attorneys argued that the surgeon inadvertently perforated the plaintiff’s ureter. While acknowledging that such an action was a risk of the procedure, evidence was submitted that the surgeon was negligent in failing to properly inspect the ureters after the surgery and before he completed the operation. A jury agreed that malpractice had occurred and concluded had such an inspection been performed, Jill’s injuries would have been treated without the complications that the she endured.
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