Posted on Jun 1, 2015
$2.15M lawsuit: Hampton VA did surgery on wrong bone in foot - WHAT?
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Last summer, Mickey Murray went to the Hampton VA Medical Center with a broken right foot. A doctor recommended - and performed - surgery to his third metatarsal, court documents said.
If only that had been the broken bone.
Murray, a Navy veteran and now a former Norfolk sheriff's deputy, filed a $2.15 million lawsuit last week against the federal government claiming medical malpractice.
Among other things, the lawsuit said Dr. Rodney Harris installed a plate and three screws on the wrong bone in his right foot.
http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/2-15m-lawsuit-hampton-va-did-surgery-on-wrong-bone-in-foot-1.349886
If only that had been the broken bone.
Murray, a Navy veteran and now a former Norfolk sheriff's deputy, filed a $2.15 million lawsuit last week against the federal government claiming medical malpractice.
Among other things, the lawsuit said Dr. Rodney Harris installed a plate and three screws on the wrong bone in his right foot.
http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/2-15m-lawsuit-hampton-va-did-surgery-on-wrong-bone-in-foot-1.349886
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You would think that, sometime before installing a plate and three screws, the doc might have realized the bone wasn't broken. But I'm not a doctor.
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SPC Jan Allbright, M.Sc., R.S.
Way back in the day I worked as a Surgery Tech.
It was pretty common for the surgeon to write "this one" on a patients leg prior to surgery
It was pretty common for the surgeon to write "this one" on a patients leg prior to surgery
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SSgt (Join to see)
That happened to me when I had surgery on my knee back in '91. They wrote Right on the right one and Wrong on the left. I guess he missed that day in med school.
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More common that the public realizes. VISN 6, for which this facility aligns has paid millions to veterans and their families for their failures over the years. This should be surprising, but unfortunately it's not. There is some interesting reading on VA's OIG web site: http://www.va.gov/oig/apps/info/OversightReports.aspx?RET=Administrative+Investigation&RPP=10&RS=3
Oversight Reports Search Page
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