Marie | Medical Negligence

Marie's medical negligence case settled for £18,000 and a special damage element of £2,200. Marie entered hopsital for an emergency colostomy.  However a gastronomy was perfomed in error causing complications and eventual death.

The surgeon who performed the operation was a fifth year specialist registrar, who at the inquest himself agreed that a colostomy was a straightforward procedure.  Both the witnesses and the independent expert instructed by the family found it difficult to explain how an experienced specialist registrar in surgery could mistake the stomach for the transverse colon.

Had this mistake been recognised earlier, Marie would have undergone corrective surgery before and would not have suffered the distress and severe metabolic abnormalities that caused her death.

Following the verdict of accidental death, the hospital apologised to the family and and settled the civil claim for compensation.