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Man sues hospital over loss of stomach

  • 20-10-2006 12:18am
    #1
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭


    What a mistake, if it turns out it was the hospitals fault!:eek: How many times has it happened before? From rte.ie

    edit: moved from AH subforum, its late and I'm tired.:)
    A 26-year-old man is taking legal proceedings against St Vincent's University Hospital in Dublin after a mix-up which has left him with no stomach.

    Lawyers for Alan O'Gorman claim his tissue samples were mixed up with those of a 70-year-old man with stomach cancer.
    Mr O'Gorman, from Ratoath, Co Meath, is suing the hospital and senior doctors who treated him.
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    He went to hospital in February 2002 with severe stomach cramps. After an operation, he was told he had a perforated ulcer.
    But his lawyers say tissue samples taken during the operation were mixed up with those of a much older man who had stomach cancer.

    Surgeons believed Mr O'Gorman had stomach cancer and removed his stomach just over a month later.
    Before the operation, Mr O'Gorman asked surgeon Justin Geoghegan if there was any chance there could have been a mistake in his diagnosis.
    Mr O'Gorman's lawyers claim the surgeon replied: 'We don't make mistakes like that here.'

    The court was told Mr O'Gorman can now only eat small amounts of food very slowly. He gets tired very easily and may only be able to work part-time in the future.
    The defendants deny all the claims.
    The case is expected to last two weeks.


Comments

  • #2
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    This is a cool video/pic/link?tisk tisk...

    Anywho, saw this on the news. Horrible thing to happen, hope the case turns out in his favour.


  • #3
    Stargal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Stargal


    Yeah, was vaguely worried when I saw that one of the surgeons that he took to court has operated on my dad twice in the past decade :D


  • #4
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    He is to receive 450,000 eurons in damages.


  • #5
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Ruu wrote:
    He is to receive 450,000 eurons in damages.


    I seen this on the news tonight,I have been following the case for a day or two now.I have to say I was expecting him to get a lot more cash for this,I suppose its a hard thing to put a price on.


  • #6
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    A few years ago my friend was in hospital for an op to his shoulder. Thenurse began prepping him for surgery and started shaving the hair off his left leg.

    When he asked why the nurse told him it was normal procedure and the bloody fool accepted this answer :rolleyes: :) Anyway, it was only when they had him anethesized inside the theatre that one of the theatre nurses said that he looked young for a 45 year old man. A quick check revealed that there was another patient of the same name in the hospital who was scheduled for surgery to his leg! :eek:

    Nobody else spotted the mistake before that and it was the theatre nurse who told him afterwards when he came round and still hadn't had the op! Close one!


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  • #7
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,254 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    That was a lucky escape.


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