Texan claims medical errors led to leg amputations
Source: Associated Press
Texan claims medical errors led to leg amputations
| November 19, 2014 | Updated: November 19, 2014 3:25pm
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) A Texas man intending to undergo a weight-loss operation is seeking $10 million in damages for what he says were a series of medical blunders that led to the amputation of both his legs at the knee.
Carlos Saucedo has filed a lawsuit claiming negligence by doctors involved in his 2013 gastric sleeve procedure near Fort Worth. The operation induces weight loss by restricting food intake.
Saucedo alleges that doctors mistakenly cut his aorta, leading to blood loss and lack of circulation to his legs. The lawsuit says he was then taken to a hospital where doctors were slow to diagnose his condition, prompting organ failure. The amputation was done at the hospital.
Attorney Timothy Ryan, representing doctors at the bariatric clinic, says he's reviewing details of the case.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Texan-claims-medical-errors-led-to-leg-amputations-5903971.php
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TexasTowelie
(112,234 posts)The reasons why:
1. Tort claims involving medical malpractice limit the amount of noneconomic loss to a total of $500,000.
2. His ethnicity (my apologies for being so blunt).
3. It's Texas.
flying_wahini
(6,606 posts)Unfortunately you are absolutely correct.
I am from Ft. Worth and would love to know more about which Dr./ hospital it was.
Guess I will go googling....
SunSeeker
(51,569 posts)A Proposition to lift the decades-old CA noneconomic damages cap so it could rise with inflation failed in blue CA this November. That shows how strong and well-funded the insurance and medical lobby is. The medical and insurance industry ads--full of lies--overwhelmed the few ads supporting the Proposition from its underfunded proponents.