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Actual Deposition Testimony of Doctors in Malpractice Cases

• Orthopedist Fails to Properly Set Fracture [PDF]
  Description: An orthopedist at a Brooklyn hospital fails to properly set a fractured arm, and fails to recognize that the arm is angulated. The orthopedist refuses to acknowledge the disfigurement in photos of the patient or the severity of the angulation of the fracture.
• Orthopedist Fails To Diagnose Hip Infection Leading to Hip Replacement [PDF]
  Description: Read about an orthopedist who was charged with failing to diagnose a hip infection that ultimately led to a hip replacement.
• Podiatrist Improperly Performed Foot Surgery [PDF]
  Description: Read deposition testimony of a podiatrist who was accused of performing foot surgery on a patient who didn't need it. After the surgery, the patient was no better and no worse.
• Surgeon Tied Off Ulnar Nerve While Repairing Laceration [PDF]
  Description: Read what happened when a surgery resident is called in to evaluate a patient with a severe arm laceration. Through a mixup in communication and departures from good medical care, an unknown surgeon who repaired the laceration also improperly tied off the ulnar nerve causing permanent damage.
• A foot doctor in training, a podiatry resident, explains that he has no idea how a young child could have gotten injured from removing his cast with a cast cutter. [PDF]
  Description: A foot doctor in training, a podiatry resident, explains that he has no idea how a young child could have gotten injured from removing his cast with a cast cutter. Read the inconsistencies showing that this doctor gave the mother antibiotic ointment, yet claimed there were no injuries to the childs' leg.
• Foot doctor tries to explain away child's burn injuries from a cast cutter [PDF]
  Description: A foot doctor- the Chief of Podiatry- explains why a young child who suffered burns from a cast cutter could not have suffered these injuries from this equipment. It's a fascinating read, especially when he tries to explain other possiblities for this child's injuries.
• Actual deposition testimony by a urology resident in a death case [PDF]
  Description: Read deposition testimony of a urology resident in a failure to timely recognize and treat a pulmonary embolism resulting in death.
• Actual testimony by a surgeon in a failure to timely recognize and treat testicular torsion resulting in death of the testicle [PDF]
  Description: Actual testimony by a surgeon who evaluated a patient for testicular torsion. Read how combative the attorney and doctor get when asked whether he's board certified. The doctor refused to answer whether he failed the board examinations; a legally proper question. An exciting and interesting deposition. Actual testimony by a surgeon in a failure to timely recognize and treat testicular torsion resulting in death of the testicle
• Actual testimony of a plastic surgeon in a botched eyelid surgery case [PDF]
  Description: A Plastic Surgeon tries to explain why he didn't botch the patient's eyelid surgery. It's a good read, especially when you learn that this Surgeon was never Board Certified.
• Actual testimony of an internist in a failure to diagnose and timely treat testicular torsion case resulting in death of a testicle. [PDF]
  Description: Read about an internal medicine doctor who treated a patient for testicular torsion. The case involves a failure to diagnose and timely treat testicular torsion resulting in death of a testicle.
• Read testimony by a urology fellow in a pulmonary embolism death case [PDF]
  Description: Read testimony by a urology fellow (a doctor who continued his training in urology after finishing his residency training) in a failure to diagnose and treat a pulmonary embolism case resulting in death.
• Read testimony by the Chief of Surgery in a case involving a failure to timely diagnose and treat a testicular torsion (twisting of a testicle) resulting in death of a testicle [PDF]
  Description: Read testimony by the Chief of Surgery in a case involving a failure to timely diagnose and treat a testicular torsion (twisting of a testicle) resulting in death of a testicle.
• Actual Testimony of a Urologist In a Failure To Diagnose Pulmonary Embolism Case Resulting In Death [PDF]
  Description: A Urologist couldn't explain who saw the patient after the patient suffered a pulmonary embolism, nor could he properly explain what treatment was given to the patient for this deadly condition. Read actual deposition testimony by the Urologist who was treating the patient.
• Actual Testimony by a Gynecologist in an Unnecessary Hysterectomy case. [PDF]
  Description: A gynecologist tells the patient "You have cervical cancer" and performed a hysterectomy. The microscopic evaluation after surgery showed the patient never had cervical cancer, and therefore didn't need a hysterectomy. Read the deposition of a gynecologist in an unnecessary hysterectomy case.
• Actual Testimony by a Surgeon in a failure to diagnose colon cancer case. [PDF]
  Description: A patient was constipated for a long time and despite taking medications prescribed by her doctor she ruptured her colon. During an exploratory surgery, the surgeon recognized the patient had a tumor and failed to treat it or even tell the patient about it. Read the deposition of this surgeon in a case of failing to diagnose and treat a colon tumor.
• Actual Testimony by an ICU doctor in an unrecognized pneumonia case [PDF]
  Description: Deposition of a Pediatric ICU Doctor in a case of failure to diagnose and treat pneumonia.
• Actual Testimony of a Pediatric ICU doctor in an unrecognized pneumonia case [PDF]
  Description: Deposition of a Pediatric Critical Care Doctor in a case of failure to diagnose and treat pneumonia.
• Actual Testimony by a Doctor in a Failure to Diagnose Brain Tumor Case [PDF]
  Description: A patient is injured in a car accident and in the emergency room she has a CAT scan of her head. The radiologist reading the CAT scan recognizes an abnormal mass in the patients' brain but fails to tell either the patient or the emergency room doctor about the abnormal finding. Read the deposition of a doctor in a case of failing to diagnose a brain tumor resulting in blindness.
• Actual Testimony by another doctor in a Failure to Diagnose Pneumonia Case [PDF]
  Description: Deposition of a Critical Care Medicine doctor in a case of failing to recognize and treat pneumonia.

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