{"id":449,"date":"2010-06-08T15:20:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T22:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/news\/?p=449"},"modified":"2010-06-08T15:20:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T22:20:20","slug":"spectator-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2010\/06\/08\/spectator-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"$250,000: Doctor Experiments With Surgical Technique Resulting In Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CASE DESCRIPTION<\/strong>: A young woman went in for a breast reduction surgery.&nbsp; Upon the doctor\u2019s own initiative he used an unorthodox and untested technique during the surgery.&nbsp; The plaintiff was disfigured due to the doctor\u2019s actions and now has brought suit for medical malpractice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESULT:&nbsp; $250,000.00 total settlement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff had received breast reduction surgery from Defendant.&nbsp; Defendant used an unorthodox and previously untested technique (central pedicle technique with placement of implants) to remove excess breast tissue without obtaining Plaintiff\u2019s informed consent.&nbsp; Subsequent to the surgery Plaintiff began to show signs of necrosis, infections and loss of nipple and severe disfigurement to her left breast.&nbsp; Defendant failed to provide any timely treatment for Plaintiff\u2019s necrotic and infected nipple and breast.&nbsp; As a result she lost the left nipple and was left with extensive scarring.&nbsp; Plaintiff required extensive medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff went on to contend that Defendant used unorthodox, untested surgical techniques that he had no experience or training in, and did not obtain Plaintiff\u2019s informed consent to perform this essentially experimental technique.&nbsp; Plaintiff further contends that Defendant interrupted the blood supply to the nipple in Plaintiff\u2019s breast and did not schedule an appointment with 24 hours of the surgery so that corrective measures could have been taken.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPE OF CASE<\/strong>:&nbsp; Medical Malpractice<\/p>\n<p><strong>INJURIES<\/strong>:&nbsp; Necrosis, infection and loss of nipple and severe disfigurement to her left breast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DATE &amp; LOCATION OF INCIDENT<\/strong>:&nbsp; On 7\/2\/04 in Huntington Beach, California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAINTIFF\u2019S AGE<\/strong>:&nbsp; 20 at time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OCCUPATION<\/strong>:&nbsp; Student<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAINTIFF\u2019S ATTORNEY<\/strong>:<br \/>\nRichard A. Cohn<br \/>\nAITKEN *&nbsp;AITKEN&nbsp;* COHN<br \/>\n<em>For Plaintiff \u2013 Jaclyn S.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>DEFENDANTS\u2019 ATTORNEY<\/strong>:<br \/>\nDennis Ames<br \/>\nLAFOLLETTE, JOHNSON, DEHASS, FESLER, SILBERBERG &amp; AMES<br \/>\n<em>For Defendant \u2013 Steven V., M.D. &amp; Plastic Surgery Center of Huntington Beach<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CASE DESCRIPTION: A young woman went in for a breast reduction surgery.&nbsp; Upon the doctor\u2019s own initiative he used an unorthodox and untested technique during the surgery.&nbsp; The plaintiff was disfigured due to the doctor\u2019s actions and now has brought suit for medical malpractice. RESULT:&nbsp; $250,000.00 total settlement Plaintiff had received breast reduction surgery from&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/2010\/06\/08\/spectator-injury\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[494],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verdicts-settlements","tag-medical-malpractice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aitkenlaw.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}