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What do you do when you've experienced a wrong-site, wrong-patient or wrong-procedure surgical error?

1/24/2009
Steve Lombardi
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Wrong-stie surgery - It is preventable. Stop rushing around.

Doctors are only human, and as such are subject to making mistakes. That doesn’t mean the patient or the insurance pays when the mistakes are easily avoidable, those known as “never events”.

Whether it’s a double mastectomy that complicates and killss the patient or the man with his healthy kidney removed, rather than the one with cancer, there is a cure for this type of mistake. It’s called the time-out.

”Out of 4,817 serious problems tracked over the past 12 years by the Joint Commission, the chief accrediting organization for hospitals, 625 were wrong-site surgeries. These are the nightmares: A Long Island, N.Y., woman in her 30s who never had cancer received an unnecessary double mastectomy—then died the following day of complications from the procedure. A man in a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital had his healthy kidney removed—instead of his cancerous one.”


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Are you one of the many patients who every year experience a medical mistake that seems so obvious you can't believe it happened to you? Did they operated on the wrong site or do the wrong procedure or worse yet operate on the wrong patient. We have experience litigating these cases and can help you. It's really pretty straight forward. Don't talk with the doctor or hospital’s insurance company representative. They aren't there for you. If you are the surgical patient it's important you understand the time-out procedure and how it's supposed to be used. Lombardi Law Firm has been studying this issue and we have represented clients involved in wrong-site surgeries.

Remember there are three types of surgical mistakes that the time-out is supposed to prevent. 1. Wrong-site surgeries. 2. Wrong-patient surgeries. 3. Wrong-procedure surgeries.  If this happens to you contact the Lombardi Law Firm. We will assist you with your claim.  Know your rights, act proactively and protect yourself.




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