The Orthopedic Surgeon - Avoidable Medical Malpractice Case

The orthopedic surgeon and the avoidable lawsuit (based on a true story)




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[atab]

Awesome points but...

Carpel tunnel release isn’t done on the dorsal wrist.

[maylaoyola]

Informed consent👏 Is👏NOT👏A👏Piece👏Of👏Paper👏. Informed consent means you sat down with the patient, explained the procedure, and gave other options in a language they understand. The paper is supposed to be documentation that you did your job and is not doing the job for you.

[plaguedoc]

I have also heard about some surgeries which have done on the wrong side. mastectomy on the wrong breast, orchiectomy on the wrong testicle, etc.
I don't know who is guilty in here, doctors or the ones who push their physiological limits with intense workload until they make those ridiculous mistakes...

[yasseressa]

Lawsuits are terrifying to me.
I'm still in medschool but I can't imagine after all the years of sleepless nights and crippling debt one mistake can cost you your medical licences

[unclelu]

This could be a series, I'm in love already 😍😊

[DokterRoetker]

What a cliffhanger. How did the lawsuit go?

[egorserkin]

We’ve got problems with dr Hammonds eyes

[memomorph]

My dad had a ganglion cyst on his ankle and when he went to the doctor he slapped the cyst with a book! It healed up fine

[harshithakonijeti]

Isn’t the ganglion cyst visible ? Is he blind during operating?

[mori.kurogawa]

Dude, surgeon must've been VERY tired. I mean, if you SEE a cyst sitting right there, doesn't it make you wonder 🤔False diagnoses are also a fascinating thing btw. Like, my uncle got half his lung cut out to realize it wasn't a tumor but encapsulated necrotic TB with calcium deposits on top. I myself got a huge shock recently when I was promply labelled diabetic type one (being young and thin) when fasting blood glucose was measured before surgery. Turned out I have very healthy blood sugar - when I'm not panicking with fear of being cut open ("stress hypergycaemia"). And therse is late onset NCAH, which can mimic syptoms of PCOS to a T, if the doctor is to lazy to make a propper examination... and so on and so on. Would make up an interesting series and maybe serve as prevention ;)

[hamidrezafathimd]

I mean seriously, couldn't he have seen the cyst that big?
But then, I've seen doctors doing appendectomy when opening the abdomen for other reasons and patients suing them.

[balaramchowdary]

Hammond didn't eat breakfast or lunch, yet did surgery for her. Its the doctor Margo who didn't fill him good that was wrong. Everyone are focusing on the mistake he did here, but missing that he skipped 2 meals a day for the sake of patients and was under stress.

Or, he could have done a f*cking assessment and used his eyes and brains. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...

[henryfreeman]

He could have used google translate....

[Pax]

Too many holes.
Sophia could have been little more proactive before signing and not just give a damn about it.
Also Hammond could see the ganglion justt there or could read the history on her file for once. No one should do a surgery like that
Also Dr margo could have just said Spanish girl with a ganglion surgery instead of Spanish girl with wrist surgery I think after being specialist u can call it by a name for sure. This is stupidity pt got her lesson now the doctor should get one he never forgets

[murattt]

blame the authorities for making Hammonds job difficult

[naomilauren]

Good concept but don’t many hospitals have on-call interpreters over the phone and don’t use in-person interpreters anymore? If there is no intepreter NEVER perform surgery. Bad idea.

[jacobhill]

im native american but I believe foreign humans should not seek treatment in the USA unless they speak proper english

[premier]

so it's good to speak english in THE US?