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this is a case I had a while
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ago uh another just an outrageous case a
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lady had
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Diverticulitis and she went into well
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she’d been treated you know medically
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and it just didn’t help her so the
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doctor said we’re going to take out a
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piece of your intestine and we’ll do a
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temporary a colostomy you know where you
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have a bag where you you know empty your
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waist into a bag said we we’ll reverse
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it you know after your intestines heal
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up we reverse it after six months this
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lady in her mid-40s she had two kids
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like Teenage Kids wasn’t going to have
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any more children so she was having some
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um vaginal bleeding and so the doctor
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said look you know when we go back and
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repair the uh colostomy and sew your
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intestin together we can do a
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hysterctomy at the same time you know I
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think it would cure your vaginal
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bleeding the problems you’re having with
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your you know reproductive system so six
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months later they go in they do an
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operation they open her up they sew the
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intestine back together they do a
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hysterctomy at the same time and uh in
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the hospital she’s having some unusual
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discharge um from her vagina and she
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tells the doctor and they say no it’s
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just normal post-operative discharge she
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goes home and she takes a mirror and she
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sees that she’s actually defecating
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through her vagina so she goes back to
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see the doctor and and tells him what’s
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going on the doctor takes a CAT scan or
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MRI turns out they sewed her intestine
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to her vagina instead of sewing her
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intestine back together they solded her
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intestines to her vagina so you know
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it’s like I mean what do you call it a
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plumbing mistake it’s just a horrendous
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situation so the doctor looks at her he
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says oh my God I let the I let the
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resident do the do the surgery they were
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able to correct it they you know over
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the course of about a year they did a
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couple operations and reconnected
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everything to the right spot but uh yeah
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that’s pretty dramatic case

New York, NY personal injury attorney Michael Ronemus tells us about the hysterectomy malpractice case you handled.

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