Personal Injury Law

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Begins Against Negligent Nose Doctor

By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

A medical malpractice trial recently began in a local courtroom, the culmination of a high-profile wrongful death lawsuit filed against a local surgeon.

According to AboutLawsuits, opening statements have been made in the case. This represents the first case to go to trial against the doctor. Amazingly the doctor faces almost 350 medical malpractice lawsuits.

This first lawsuit was brought by the victims of one family whose mother was killed after the doctor failed to diagnose her lung cancer. The family filed the suit in 2004, which prompted the doctor to flee the country. The woman visited the surgeon, known as the ?Nose Doctor,? to fix a scratchy throat and sinus problem that she had been suffering. The doctor eventually performed unnecessary surgeries on the victim and totally missed the fact that the problems were caused by lung cancer.

Authorities were unable to find the man for 5 ½ years until he was finally apprehended on an Italian mountainside in mid-December 2009

Besides this medical malpractice case, the doctor is also facing 22 counts of health-care fraud related to the substantial Medicare and Medicaid fraud he perpetrated while his practice was open. He has plead guilty to those counts and will be sentenced by the end of next month.

Full post as published by Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog on March 29, 2011 (boomark / email).