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: Bodily Injury BlogPatient Awarded Damages for Botched Colonoscopy
By Edward Bills
A New Mexico jury has ordered a general surgeon to pay $1 million in damages for failing to repair a colon perforation after a colonoscopy, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports. The tiny hole continued to leak fecal matter into the patient's abdomen for 11 days before it was found and repaired, an attorney for the plaintiffs said. The patient has since undergone 13 operations to treat infections resulting from the initial procedure.
Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).
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