Our client, a retired small business owner, was suffering from nausea and abdominal pain for several days before being transported to Sentara Leigh Hospital ER in the late afternoon of March 16, 2017. The ER attending physician was employed with Emergency Physicians of Tidewater (EPT) and ordered a blood test and a CT scan of…
What Happened Our Virginia medical practice client died following an intubation error during hip replacement repair surgery. The 58-year-old man’s wife and two adult children survived him, and the family pursued this wrongful death case on his behalf. The man had dislocated his prosthetic hip in a fall and was referred from the emergency room…
What Happened Our medical malpractice client was 39 years old when she visited her gynecologist complaining of swelling and pain in her abdomen. A CT scan revealed a uterine abscess, and the doctor recommended a complete hysterectomy. Removing the woman’s uterus required opening her abdominal cavity. During the procedure, the gynecologist inadvertently cut one our…
What Happened Surgeons and nurses left a sponge inside our client’s body after performing a hysterectomy. The foreign object was not discovered until six months later, and our client experienced serious health problems during that time. Removing the sponge required a second surgery, which revealed a fistula in our client’s bowel. A third surgery called…
What Happened Our Virginia medical malpractice client experienced serious complications following gallbladder removal surgery because the surgeon left a sponge inside his abdominal cavity. Removing the sponge and repairing the damage done by the foreign object and resulting infection required a follow-up surgery to extensively reconstruct the man’s bowels. The surgical error victim was 55…