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…
What Happened Our Virginia medical malpractice client had her intestines cut during an improperly performed hysterectomy and developed life-threatening infections. The woman was 32 and working as a school teacher when she received a diagnosis of endometriosis. Numerous trials of prescription medications failed to relieve her pelvic pain, so her gynecologist recommended a hysterectomy. A…
What Happened Our Virginia medical malpractice client was 25 years old when an emergency room physician mistakenly diagnosed the man’s life-threatening fungal meningitis as the less-serious viral form of the disease. The young man went to the ER complaining of experiencing headaches, nausea, vomiting, neck pain and unusual sensitivity to bright lights for the preceding…
What Happened An emergency room physician diagnosed a 56-year-old retired FBI agent with a sore throat and sent the man home with a referral to an ear, nose and throat specialist. The physician performed no diagnostic tests. Four days later, the man died at his home. After an autopsy identified the man’s cause of death…
What Happened Our client was struggling with back pain radiating down her left leg. She went to the defendant neurosurgeon, who advised her to undergo surgery on one or more discs in her lower back. The neurosurgeon lost control of a surgical instrument during the procedure and cut three blood vessels in our client’s abdomen….