What Happened Our Virginia medical malpractice client suffered life-threatening bleeding when a pharmacy dispensed a massive overdose of a clot-busting drug. The medication error hospitalized him numerous times. When the 61-year-old man who was in otherwise generally good health experienced sudden and painful swelling in his left ankle, he visited a vascular surgeon and was…
What Happened Our Virginia medical malpractice client was 61 years old and in generally good health when he went to the doctor complaining of a swollen left ankle that he could not connect to an injury. A vascular surgeon diagnosed the swelling as a symptom of a clot in a leg vein and prescribed the…
What Happened Our Virginia medical malpractice client was 37 years old when she went to her doctor complaining of pelvic pain. The physician recommended a hysterectomy, and she scheduled the laparoscopic procedure. Following the initial surgery, our client developed a life-threatening infection. Eventually, her medical team discovered that the cause of her postsurgery complications was…
What Happened Our Virginia medical malpractice client had to undergo several surgeries to repair a ureter that her OB/GYN negligently severed while performing a laparoscopic hysterectomy. The woman was retired from the Newport News, VA, Police Department when she began experiencing persistent abdominal pain. Results from X-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans and other tests led her…
What Happened Our client suffered from diabetes but was in otherwise reasonably good health when, at age 60, he was admitted to a hospital for treatment of a toe ulcer. When symptoms of gallbladder disease emerged, his health care team decided that removing the organ was the best treatment option. Surgeons operated on our client…