A urologist mistakenly removes the ovaries from a 7-year old

I don’t know much to judge if this mistake qualifies as negligence given the condition this has, but I have to comment on damage.

If you are really a doctor you must know that there is more to ovaries than just the ability to give birth. The girl is essentially in menopause at the age of 7, so essentially she got none of the protective effects of estrogen on bones or heart, for example, before she lost it. She is at a very high risk of osteoporosis, increased risk of heart desease. She’ll have to take hormones until she is 50, but even with hormones her risk of osteoporosis will still be high.

Go to NIH website and read up on Premature Ovarian Failure.

Actually this is an instance of malpractice and there should be finacial compesation to the girl. She will now require hormones to go through puberty, and then will need hormones for some time after that. She can no longer have any biological children of her own, she has lost alot and she does deserve something in return.

Storkdoc: She has no Vagina or Uterus, so she could never have biological children of her own. I would agree in an ideal system the patient should be compensated for this medical error, but this is the U.S., so compensation will not occur, a gang-bang will occur, the urologist will consider suicide from all the personal attacks, the plaintiff’s sodomites will attack each other, the surgeon, the victim. The surgeon will spend months out of work while he fights this tooth and nail. Meanwhile he may have three or four other frivolous cases because the system is so corrupt. He may settle the frivolous cases just to lighten his load. In the end the hospial will have one less Urologist, the family may or may not have a few bucks, and the lawyers will be having sex with a higher class of prostitutes. Who wins?

Great. Why don’t you go testify for the offense then. You can bring the jury to tears as you recount how this Mean urologist stole her ovaries, and you can hear her future IVF’ed children crying as their lives are taken from them. Should be worth 10-12 mil. How frying the urologist makes things right is beyond me, but then maybe that’s why I’m leaving the country to avoid the sodomites.

P.S. : To Kitty: Why do you think I describe her “life-long depression”. The sodomites will tack every possible future disability on this doc, and multiply it by the “pain and suffering”. And I’m sure he did it on purpose.

“Why do you have to minimize the damage done to this girl to make a point about lawsuits?”

Because when you’ve been sued twice, one for a patient I never even saw, the second time because a family decided to sue a nursing home and the sodomites threw me into the suit to see if they could shake any money out of my insurance ( I was her ER Doc, she had a fractured hip, I diagnosed her fractured hip, I admitted her to ortho, lot of malpractice there) you get bitter about the system, paranoid, and no longer care about patients. They become future plaintiffs, risks to your well-being. I sincerely believe this is widespread, but I’m the only one who’s willing to admit it. I’m getting out, to practice in a healthcare system where I can care about the patients again, not view them as future litigants. That’s what you are in the U.S. After all, as the sodmites say, “it’s not personal, It’s all business”. Thanks sodomites.

“But just to get some perspective, try to place yourself in this girl’s father’s shoes and think how you’d feel about the whole experience. Would you be very understanding? “

You directed this question at me. I have chronic lung disease, and I often miss weeks of work because of my illness. I was fired from my job last due to my illness, which is apparently an illegal act. But I didn’t sue. It’s not my nature. If you ask me, I would rather be the father of that girl, because I’m sure he derives much pleasure and happiness from having her as a daughter, even if she had a botched operation. Working as an ER doc is Hell, I’ve been assaulted and abused in every possible meaning of the words “assaulted” and “abused”, The lawyers are just another form of assault, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, I’d rather be the father of this girl. But I shouldn’t complain, I’m getting out.