Personal Injury Law

Patient Filed Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Over Botched Throat Surgery

By Kirk Bernard, Esq.

Errors that occur during surgery can sometimes have devastating consequences and change a person's life forever. Seattle personal injury attorneys have represented a number of injured clients who have suffered permanent disabilities or have had to undergo unnecessary procedures, pain and suffering, and medical expenses as a result of surgical errors.

According to a news report in the North Platte Bulletin, a couple recently filed a lawsuit against the doctor who they say performed an unnecessary and botched surgery that damaged the woman's vocal chords permanently. The complaint states that the doctor recommended removing all or part of the woman's thryroid gland to treat a goiter. During the procedure, the doctor explained to the woman that he would do the necessary monitoring to prevent nerve and vocal chord damage.

However, after the surgery, the woman started to have symptoms such as hoarseness and shortness of breath. After getting a second and third opinion, it was determined that the doctor who performed the thyroidectomy did not employ a monitoring device. As a result, the woman had to have additional procedures to correct the botched surgery and has still been left with damaged vocal chords, permanent shortness of breath and scars from the additional procedures.

Full post as published by Seattle Injury Blog on December 31, 2009 (boomark / email).