Legal Nurse Podcast
349 Botched Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
I will tell you a story today about a man who went into the operating room for a simple procedure and then died a horrible death.
Mr. King’s (not his real name) surgeon went to a weekend course and learned how to do a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a pig. He enthusiastically returned to his practice to begin using this surgical method on his patients.
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Listen in as Pat Iyer chats about these points
* Pretend for the moment that you are hired as an expert fact witness * Should Mr. King have had 256 injections into his arms, legs, buttocks and abdomen? * What was the effect of the botched surgery on the patient?* The outcome for the family
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Pat Iyer has been a legal nurse consultant since 1987. She also built a successful LNC business that included testifying as an expert witness for 20 years. Pat has written or edited 48 of he