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Paralyzed Woman Sues Texas Spine Doctor After Botched Surgery
Posted on Apr 28, 2011
A Texas woman who is now a quadriplegic is suing a doctor, a medical office, and a hospital for medical malpractice after she alleges she received a botched spinal surgery and poor treatment after the operation.
According to the Texas medical malpractice lawsuit, which was filed this week in Jefferson County, Wyoming Newman was involved in a serious car accident in 2007 that injured her back and spine. An MRI revealed that she could benefit from an anterior discectomy and fusion spinal surgery and she was referred to a spine doctor.
The doctor who took on her case a year later did not order a new MRI before deciding on a different operation for Newman – a corpectomy. As soon as Newman woke up from the surgery, she realized that she had no feeling in her legs and very little feeling in her arms. However, her doctor, Dr. Erwin Lo, did not perform emergency surgery to attempt to fix the compression in her spinal cord until days later. By that time, permanent damage had been done.
In addition to Dr. Lo, Newman and her husband Michale are suing Golden Triangle Neurocare and Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas. Lo should have taken a new MRI, the malpractice suit states, while the hospital should have overridden Lo’s poor care as soon as they realized that the surgery had gone wrong.
Newman is suing for mental anguish, lost wages, lost future wages, pain, medical costs, physical impairment, and disfigurement. Newman’s husband said that he has lost his wife’s household services, her solace, her comfort, her companionship, her society, assistance, sexual relations, emotional support, love, and felicity.
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