Doctor Sues for Medical Negligence

Our Atlanta personal injury lawyers constantly hear calls from doctors and politicians to limit the rights of recovery of innocent patients injured by medical negligence. Often, the rights of these innocent patients are sacrificed for the monetary benefit of physicians and big insurance companies. One need look no further than the so called “tort reform” package passed by the Georgia legislature in 2005 and later signed into law by Governor Perdue.
Doctors are quick to support this erosion of rights for patients until it happens to them or their loved ones.
An example is a Charleston, West Virginia physician who has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against two other doctors and a hospital, alleging negligence and improper treatment when he needed abdominal surgery.
The physician, a gynecologist, was admitted to the hospital in April and underwent abdominal surgery, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit contends that the hospital and physicians failed to provide adequate, proper and safe medical care, advice, assessment, monitoring and treatment; and, they also failed to perform an appropriate and safe surgical procedure.
The lawsuit alleges that after surgery, the physician developed an infection. His condition deteriorated to the point where he developed severe and debilitating abdominal pain, decreased consciousness and overwhelming septic shock, according to the complaint. It further alleges that his physical condition was allowed to deteriorate to a point where he required mechanical ventilation and additional surgeries.
According to the complaint the physician suffered severe physical injury, incurred medical bills, suffered physical and mental pain, emotional distress and will suffer those in the future, as well as permanent disfigurement and disability, and lost income.