MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
Medical Center faces legal action over liposuction ordeal

August 4, 2008 – A 39-year-old businessman and veteran from Quincy, Massachusetts, filed medical malpractice charges against a renowned medical center for not owning up to its errors in the hours and days after his traumatic liposuction procedure last June.

According to the malpractice lawsuit, Beth Israel faces legal action after a simple cosmetic procedure evolved into days of pain and suffering for the patient.

The patient, described in news reports as a somewhat portly man, decided on the common liposuction procedure, which required general anesthesia and was expected to take 60 to 90 minutes – but lasted nearly seven hours.

A review of medical records, court files and Board of Registration in Medicine data, conducted and reported on by the Boston Herald, discovered that:

Beth Israel staff members never disclosed to the man what complications occurred in the operating room;

The surgeon, who was fired after the operation, dictated a false post-operative report after abandoning the surgery nearly five hours before the procedure ended;

The patient’s post-operative complaints of bleeding, chills and pain were described by the surgeon’s office as part of his “natural recovery process”;

The patient was hospitalized for bleeding at another hospital 10 days after the difficult surgery.

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