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BALTIMORE – A man alleging a Maryland doctor stapled his rectum shut during an operation — causing him to go without defecating for 17 days — took his federal lawsuit to trial Monday in Baltimore.
Ronald Watkins, 64, of West Virginia, is suing Manuel Casiano, a doctor in Frederick County, for allegedly botching a 2004 surgery that left Watkins with permanent bowel problems.
“The reason for suing Dr. Casiano is very simple: His rectum was stapled shut,” said Julia Lodowski, who with attorney Emily Malarkey is representing Watkins and his wife, Brenda.
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Watkins underwent surgery Sept. 8, 2004, for a newly diagnosed rectal tumor, during which Casiano made the mistake, according to his lawsuit against the Foris Surgical Group.Watkins then complained of increasing rectal pressure, and an inability to pass gas, his lawsuit states.
In a subsequent surgery, Casiano found that Watkins’ rectum was closed because of staples, according to the lawsuit.
“He couldn’t get past the staple line,” Lodowski told jurors.
I really feel sorry for this guy, but the headline cracked me up.
Must be a republican doctor dismissing the importance of an exit strategy.
So the doctor forgot he stapled his ass shut?!?!?!
I heard this story or rummer around the pot belly stove that a local vet sewed up his wife’s …
And the guy was so full of fecal matter he started posting on DU under the nickname of Cow-Paddy.
I wish the guy the best.
The lawyer’s name is Malarkey. You sure the source on this isn’t The Onion?
When I had my wisdom teeth removed the oral surgeon screwed up when he sewed the edge of the wound to the inside of my cheek instead of the other edge of the wound.
I lost so much blood that I had to be rushed to emergency where the problem was corrected and I received a blood transfusion. If not for being in hospital for the night I would have died.
THEN I suffered severe pain for over a month, kept going back to the dentist to hear “it’s just sympathy pain’ One morning while brushing my teeth I noticed a hard white ‘something’ protruding from my bottom gum. Went to the dentist, he pulled out a sliver of jaw bone about 1/4 inch wide and 2 inches long. The relief was so great I nearly passed out when the pain suddenly vanished.
It was a frigging military dentist or I would have sued his ass off. Best I could do was file a formal complaint with the inspector general and the guy was transferred. I hope they burned his ass.
So – I totally believe this happened to the guy and I hope he DOES sue the doctor’s ASS OFF.
#6,
Forgot to mention the sliver of bone was between 1/32 and 1/16 of an inch thick. It was about 1/3 of the outer face of the lower jaw bone.
If the patient was a Democrat, the doctor probably did nothing wrong. They are always full of shit.
A good friend’s mother died along the same lines. After an operation she was given strong opiates. Opiates constipate patients and no one noticed she didn’t have a bowel movement for at least 10 days. She kept complaining of stomach pain and when they finally checked, it turned out her lower intestine had twisted itself closed. By that time it was too late.
The problem was that there were too many people involved to assign blame to in the death of a 68 yr old woman.
As Cow-Paddy attests, shit happens.
Milton?
sooooo who was the lucky doc that got to remove that stapling? :O
oh the humanity!
It must be a bitch to get your James Hill stapled shut!
#12 – Judge Jewdy
James doesn’t use staples. [NSFW]
#12 & 13,
I’m convinced.