George Piano, 72, went to the emergency room at the University of Washington Northwest Medical Center in the United States. due to severe abdominal pain more and more intense that has not stopped.
There quickly he was diagnosed with appendicitis and they told him that they had to urgently remove the inflamed organ.
Piano underwent the procedure, but when he woke up the pain was much worse compared to before the operation.
“When I woke up and came out of the anesthesia, I felt intense pain. Much worse than when I went to the hospital,” he recalls to USA Today.
The doctors explained this to Piano They were normal pains of the operation he had undergone and that after a few days they would go away little by little. And they discharged him.
He slowly returned home confident that the pain would ease, as promised. But this did not happen. The pain not only did not stop but became more intense.
The man eventually had to return to hospital and it was there that a CT scan revealed that the appendix was inflamed it was still there.
What had happened? Apparently, as it turned out, doctors couldn’t locate his appendix and ended up removing it. a lower part of the colon.
But not only that, Piano also insures doctors They punctured his colon during the initial operation, causing its contents to leak into his abdominal cavity and making him even sicker.
“I was suffering from a leak in my colon caused sepsis and infection. And because of this I almost died,” the man explained to the KIRO-TV network.
Piano and his wife.Piano also said he had to submit to four further interventions to repair the colon and control the infection.
“He’s left with it a wound in the abdomen for months, he suffered from anxiety, short-term memory loss and intense pain,” his lawyer said.
Now Piano is requesting a jury trial and monetary compensation “put an end to this, take responsibility and say it happened; we must act to ensure this does not happen again.”
Meanwhile, a representative from University of Washington Medicine assured USA Today that “UW Medicine is committed to providing the best possible care to all our patients; “Your safety and well-being are deeply important to us.”
Source: La Vanguardia
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