Passen Powell Jenkins represented the estate of a man who suffered a bile duct injury caused by the general surgeon’s negligence during a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal surgery), resulting in the need for a corrective stenting procedure by a gastroenterologist. Weeks later, the man developed a periampullary bleed and died. The defense argued this bleed was unrelated… Read More
Surgical Errors as Actionable Medical Malpractice
An interesting article came out today in Medscape, a news service for physicians linked to WebMD. The article discussed what surgeons call “never events.” Basically, these are events that should never happen in surgery, and yet it was reported that over 4,000 of these events happen every year — that equates to over 80 “never… Read More
