Wrong Surgery Lawsuit

Attorneys Fred Pritzker and Elliot Olsen represent people who suffer harm when a surgeon performs the wrong surgery. They and their team of lawyers gather and preserve evidence, hire medical experts and build a case that will win full and adequate compensation for our client. We are not paid unless you win.

In prosecuting these cases, lawyers rely on a number of legal theories of recovery including medical negligence, lack of informed consent and battery. Damages are recoverable for pain, suffering, emotional distress, disfigurement, loss of earnings (and of earning capacity) and medical expenses. In appropriate cases, punitive damages are sought as well.

Malpractice cases involving the surgeon preforming the wrong surgery on a patient can involving any of the following:

Removal of the wrong organ. Recently, a hospital took the wrong kidney out of a patient. The patient died shortly thereafter, having only one damaged kidney (the one that was supposed to be removed) remaining. These cases can also involve removal of a kidney, for example, instead of gallbladder (this happened).
Surgery on the wrong organ. An example of this would be an operation to drain fluid from a right lung where the doctor inserts the needle into the left lung before realising the mistake. Or if a patient goes in for a hysterectomy and gets an appendectomy.
Surgical amputation of the wrong arm, hand, leg or foot.
Surgery on the wrong part of the body. This can be surgery on the wrong knee or surgery on the wrong side of the cranium. Common areas where this happens include: knee, foot/ankle, hand/wrist, spine, cranium, hip, chest, prostate, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, heart, breast, shoulder, eye, ear, spine.
The wrong surgical procedure. There are many reasons for these mistakes. One surgeon said he had just finished surgery on one patient and then got confused and did the same surgery on the next patient. Fatigue often plays a role. Procedures that may be involved in these cases: biopsy, knee surgery (arthroscopy, meniscectomy, chondroplasty, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, replacement), shoulder surgery (arthroscopy, decompression, distal clavicle excision, debridement), carpal tunnel release, fracture repair, debridement, hip replacement, rotator cuff tendon repair, laminectomy, spinal fusion, intervertebral disc surgery, eye surgery (cataract, glaucoma, cornial, vitreo-retinal, oculoplastic).

Wrong Surgery Lawsuit: Attorneys Fred Pritzker and Elliot Olsen represent clients who want to sue a hospital and surgeon for doing the wrong surgery. Mr. Pritzker is listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America. He and his team of attorneys have won millions for our clients.

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