Can you imagine going in for surgery and having the doctors forget to anesthetize you before they cut you open? Well I'm sure some people can imagine it, since there are still those who probably recall a time when surgical anesthesia was practically unheard of and many a painful procedure were performed without it, but when having surgery today, it is relatively unthinkable. "The woman was temporarily paralyzed because she had been given a muscle relaxant, and her ordeal ended only after a replacement doctor who came into the operating room saw tears in her eyes" She is suing for approximately $76,000, which seems like an extremely small sum considering the pain that she must have endured, not to mention, a small price to pay on the part of the medical facility for what appears to be an egregious act of malpractice.
Posted by Maria at June 30, 2003 03:35 PM | TrackBack