Complications arose from his gastric bypass surgery at Man’s Greatest Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital. Patriots QB Tom Brady is expected to be a plaintiff witness:
In the Weis case, Ferguson and Hodin may need to counter a report by Dr. Steven J. Smith, a Florida surgeon hired by Weis’s legal team, who concluded the Mass. General physicians provided substandard care and treatment resulting in Weis’s excessive bleeding, septic shock, and respiratory distress, among other conditions.The court is also expected to hear from Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, whose testimony is likely to focus on Weis’s condition before and after the surgery as well as the episode’s emotional impact (Maura Weis also is named as a plaintiff). Brady, who recently sat for a deposition at Gillette Stadium, held a bedside vigil with the Weises when complications developed.
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As an ER doc, I do everything I can not to have my name on the charts of these patients when they come into the ER with a complication of their surgeries. Unfortunately their surgeons always tell them to go to the ER if they have a problm. This patient population must try to win the Lawsuit Lottery game more then the general population. It’s unfair that we have to see everyone who comes through the door, and our names can get dragged into these lawsuits although we have almost nothing to do with the patient’s care.
Yeah, that woman who died as a result of the overdose administered by the nurse – she was a real winner of the “lawsuit lottery” wasn’t she!!
Keep blaming other people for your poor care.
A-non 2:04, it’s all YOUR fault.
Correct me if I am wrong but I had always heard that the overall mortality in this group of people (morbidly obese getting gastric bypass) was in the neighborhood of 0.5%. Of course the alternative….the sequalae of long term morbid obesity is much higher. How much does the coach weigh now?
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So how is the football Quarterback going to be witness for the plaintiff. Presumably his only expertise with medicine is throwing the ball through an old tire swing. Hang in there old boy, Levitra will get Mr. Willie up.
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