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From what I can tell, the doctor performing my laparoscopic gallbladder cholecystectomy mistakenly cut open my bile duct because it's shaped a little differently and the surgeon did not recognize it to be my common bile duct. I sufferred tremendously as a result of this mistake and was forced to endure the pain and expense of more surgeries. Do I have a case?
A: It depends on the precise facts of your case, but transecting, or cutting, the wrong bile duct in a laparoscopic gallbladder surgery has been one of the most common surgical malpractice events for some time now. You very well could have a valid medical malpractice claim.
Doctors and surgeons have a duty to identify the organs they are operating on before they make incisions. In addition, variations in anatomy mean that in some cases surgeons should take additional measures to identify which organ or anatomical structure is the correct one.
One such procedure that surgeons can perform to identify proper organs in a gallbladder surgery is a cholangiography, which is the medical term for looking at the bile duct using x-rays. This procedure could have alerted your surgeon to the fact that he or she was about to cut the wrong organ.
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- My wife died from a pulmonary embolism ten days after give birth to our child by c-section. We told her doctors and nurses at follow-up appointments about her leg swelling. We called her Ob/Gyn two days before that but he never returned our call.
Her doctors and nurses knew my wife was at risk for pulmonary embolism and that she was overweight. No one examined anything but her swollen ankles at the follow-up appointment. They didn't run tests on her heart, lungs or chest. They didn't check her pedal pulse like I read they should do. This has got to be medical malpractice, right?
- My right lateral femoral cutaneous nerve was damaged during my hysterectomy. I am experiencing much pain now and it's so difficult to walk that I can't work in my sales position any more. My follow up exams found that my nerve is not severed. However, my EMG was quite abnormal. Is this the surgeon's fault?
