Patient accuses Yale doctors of removing wrong body part
CNNStory highlights Patient says surgeons removed section of seventh rib instead of eighth Yale hospital admits "an error was made" Lawsuit accuses surgeon of trying to cover up the mistake CNN — A patient has filed a lawsuit against Yale New Haven Hospital for allegedly removing part of the wrong rib during surgery and then trying to cover up the mistake. Deborah Craven, 60, had surgery last year to remove part of her eighth rib because of a precancerous lesion – but instead, doctors removed part of her seventh rib, according to the complaint filed in Connecticut Superior Court. An X-ray was performed, and Dr. Anthony Kim, an assistant professor of surgery at Yale, informed Craven and her husband that the wrong rib had been removed, according to Craven’s lawyer, Joel Faxon. According to the complaint, Quarrie told the couple that the surgeons “had not removed enough rib during the surgery and, for that reason, she would need to undergo another surgery.” “Making the patient undergo another surgery the same day, without owning up to the real medical reason for the repeat surgery is just plain deceitful,” Faxon wrote in a press release.
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