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Another one of your insightful posts. My Dad died from surgical bungling - the result of having his portal vein (if you don't know what that is - look in a medical dictionary) chopped during an operation for a pheochromocytoma - tumor on adrenal gland. Not only did they "inadvertantly" cut this very important vein - but they put arterial clampers on it and so badly mangled the vein that it could not be put back together again - and a porta cava shunt was performed - result - blood was not routed thru liver for detoxifiation - and in one year my Dad was DEAD the results of NH4OH poisoning - ammonia a byproduct of protein breakdown poisoning the brain. Every surgeon involved lied and the rest swore to it. Were it not for my medical knowledge they would have gotten away with it. While anyone can make a mistake - do NOT lie and cover it up to the family stupidly thinking that everyone who is NOT an MD has no medical knowledge.
Summation - surgeons had their pants sued off of them - we won the case - the head surgeon was dismissed from the hospital - a leading teaching hospital on Long Island.
Frivilous lawsuit - I don't think So.............
Maybe not frivolous, however how much did it cost the consumer? I understand that you cannot put a price on human life, so obviously MONEY cannot be the answer. Although they should be responsible for any hardships they caused the family as well as the funeral cost.
Anyhow how many extra millions did you impose upon the consumer with this lawsuit? Or were you fair with the consumer & only impose a moderate amount on us? Of course everybody makes mistakes. He didn't die on the operating table, is this a common thing? Is it common to follow up with proceedures to catch this afterwards? Who was ultimately responsible?
I cannot agree with the doctors lying to their patients or patients families, but that may be exactly why they do. So they can still afford to stay in business. I would think a fair solution would be for them to pay for all hardships imposed on your family as well as funeral costs. Also more important than money, I would want them to not practice anymore. I would want proceedures changed so this could not happen to others. Is that what you did or were you just happy with the cash? Not really caring what may happen to others in the future? To me thats what the lawyers should be interested in is stopping this from happening again, yet the more money they get for you, the more they get paid, seems a little greedy to me. Some people would say that if "we sue the pants off of them" then that would teach them a lesson. Well it doesnt, it only increases the cost of health insurance for all the rest of us while a few people as well as the lawyers get rich. While NOT correcting the problem at all, did you correct the problem? Are they still practicing? Or better yet, are they still practicing the same proceedures? Did you & your lawyers follow up on the case to see that changes in their proceedures had been put into place? Or once again, was the cash all you really needed? Hows this for insightfulness?
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