Surgery Negligence Allegedly Results In 16 Items In Body
According to several news outlets, a German lawyer, Annette Corinth, claims that her now-deceased client was the victim of surgery negligence.
Her claim is that after prostate cancer surgery in 2009, her elderly client’s wounds wouldn’t heal and he suffered for weeks with horrible pain. During two separate followup surgeries, doctors were shocked to discover in his body 16 pieces of operating room instruments and supplies including surgical strips, a six-inch roll of bandage, a six-inch compress, a fragment from a surgical mask, swabs and a needle.
“Such a degree of foreign bodies that have been forgotten in the body after surgery, is unique in the medical literature,” said Corinth.
According to the man’s daughter, he wanted to live until his 80th birthday, but passed away last year from complications related to his cancer.
“He wanted to live to see his 80th birthday,” his daughter said, according to German-language news site The World.
His family has been fighting with the Protestant Church-affiliated Hanover Henriettenstift hospital where the surgery took place for compensation since 2010. They are seeking $106,216 from hospital.
According to the Huffington Post, it took two operations to remove all the items.
The spokesperson for the organization that runs Henriettenstift, Achim Balkhoff, states the claims are baseless. He claims that the equipments wasn’t in use at the time. He also believes the family’s compensation demands are too high.
The family is reportedly seeking about $127,000 in damages.
Doctors Leave Surgical Tools In Patients All Too OFten
According to a 2012 study published in the journal Surgery, over 4,000 cases of never events occurred annually between 1990-2010.
According to EveryDailHealth.Com:
The researchers, said study leader Marty Makary, MD, MPH, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, estimated that 80,000 of these so-called “never events” occurred in American hospitals — and believed their approximations are likely on the low side.
The team examined medical malpractice claims — all patient triumphant lawsuits — to assess the effect of never events on physicians, patients, and the healthcare system.
The estimated 4,000 yearly occurrences broke down to a weekly count of more than 30 foreign objects lingering in patients and 20 medical procedures conducted on incorrect areas of the body.
“We all know the health care system is broken, burdening our families, businesses, and national debt. It needs common-sense reform,” said study leader Marty Makary, MD, MPH, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Transparency can empower their consumers to make their hospitals accountable and make the practice of medicine more honest.”
On The Web:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lawyer-surgeons-left-16-items-german-op-18236010
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dies-botched-operation.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
According to several news outlets, a German lawyer, Annette Corinth, claims that her now-deceased client was the victim of surgery negligence.
Her claim is that after prostate cancer surgery in 2009, her elderly client’s wounds wouldn’t heal and he suffered for weeks with horrible pain. During two separate followup surgeries, doctors were shocked to discover in his body 16 pieces of operating room instruments and supplies including surgical strips, a six-inch roll of bandage, a six-inch compress, a fragment from a surgical mask, swabs and a needle.
“Such a degree of foreign bodies that have been forgotten in the body after surgery, is unique in the medical literature,” said Corinth.
According to the man’s daughter, he wanted to live until his 80th birthday, but passed away last year from complications related to his cancer.
“He wanted to live to see his 80th birthday,” his daughter said, according to German-language news site The World.
His family has been fighting with the Protestant Church-affiliated Hanover Henriettenstift hospital where the surgery took place for compensation since 2010. They are seeking $106,216 from hospital.
According to the Huffington Post, it took two operations to remove all the items.
The spokesperson for the organization that runs Henriettenstift, Achim Balkhoff, states the claims are baseless. He claims that the equipments wasn’t in use at the time. He also believes the family’s compensation demands are too high.
The family is reportedly seeking about $127,000 in damages.
Doctors Leave Surgical Tools In Patients All Too OFten
According to a 2012 study published in the journal Surgery, over 4,000 cases of never events occurred annually between 1990-2010.
According to EveryDailHealth.Com:
The researchers, said study leader Marty Makary, MD, MPH, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, estimated that 80,000 of these so-called “never events” occurred in American hospitals — and believed their approximations are likely on the low side.
The team examined medical malpractice claims — all patient triumphant lawsuits — to assess the effect of never events on physicians, patients, and the healthcare system.
The estimated 4,000 yearly occurrences broke down to a weekly count of more than 30 foreign objects lingering in patients and 20 medical procedures conducted on incorrect areas of the body.
“We all know the health care system is broken, burdening our families, businesses, and national debt. It needs common-sense reform,” said study leader Marty Makary, MD, MPH, an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Transparency can empower their consumers to make their hospitals accountable and make the practice of medicine more honest.”
On The Web:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/lawyer-surgeons-left-16-items-german-op-18236010
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dies-botched-operation.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
