Medical Malpractice [DC] Medical Malpractice Attorney?

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Hi, I am wondering if this case might be worth anyone's time? TLDR: Nearly one year of debilitating pain (major loss in quality of life) for cancer patient due to surgical clamp left inside patient's body.

Mar 2021 - Patient had surgery at DC Hospital to remove cancer. After surgery, the hospital admitted they left surgical clamps in Pateint's body which could cause infection so the patient had to go back into OR to remove the clamps. Hospital said that the second surgery was successful in removing the remaining clamp(s).

Patient has been in extreme pain every day since the surgery. Has seen multiple pain specialists to try different treatments and procedures to address the pain.

Patient went through full chemotherapy treatment

Patient continued to experience extreme pain every single day.

November 2021: CT/PET scans showed no cancer

Dec 2021/Jan 2022-Less than a year after surgery, Patient develops tumor around surgical sight (terminal cancer) and infections.

Jan, 2022- A surgical clamp comes out of the infection site. (Discovered while changing dressing)

Jan, 2022 - Based on recommendation from doctor, Patient decides to stop chemotherapy treatments. She is given two months to live.

Feb 2022: Patient says debilitating pain is gone. (Because clamp is gone?)

March 2022: Patient passes away.

 

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Hi, I am wondering if this case might be worth anyone's time? TLDR: Nearly one year of debilitating pain (major loss in quality of life) for cancer patient due to surgical clamp left inside patient's body.

Mar 2021 - Patient had surgery at DC Hospital to remove cancer. After surgery, the hospital admitted they left surgical clamps in Pateint's body which could cause infection so the patient had to go back into OR to remove the clamps. Hospital said that the second surgery was successful in removing the remaining clamp(s).

Patient has been in extreme pain every day since the surgery. Has seen multiple pain specialists to try different treatments and procedures to address the pain.

Patient went through full chemotherapy treatment

Patient continued to experience extreme pain every single day.

November 2021: CT/PET scans showed no cancer

Dec 2021/Jan 2022-Less than a year after surgery, Patient develops tumor around surgical sight (terminal cancer) and infections.

Jan, 2022- A surgical clamp comes out of the infection site. (Discovered while changing dressing)

Jan, 2022 - Based on recommendation from doctor, Patient decides to stop chemotherapy treatments. She is given two months to live.

Feb 2022: Patient says debilitating pain is gone. (Because clamp is gone?)

March 2022: Patient passes away.

I'd encourage the representative of the decedent's estate or, if there isn't one, the close relatives of the decedent, to consult a couple DC medical malpractice/wrongful death attorney. Leaving surgical implements in the body is one of the easiest malpractice claims to pursue in terms of establishing negligence. The question then would be whether leaving those clamps in there caused damages to the decedent that he would not have had if they had been properly removed. For example, if he was going to die from the cancer anyway than that loss cannot be attributed to leaving the clamps in. But there is probably some money to get out of this rather blatant mistake in not accounting for all the clamps used during the surgery.