Right or Wrong Patients DR ordered to pay child support?
Right or Wrong Patients DR ordered to pay child support
gynaecologist in Venice has been ordered to pay child maintenance to a patient who had an unwanted pregnancy following the failure of a sterilisation operation.
Dr Ruggero Pasqualetto must pay a total of 105,000 euros, around £70,000, to his patient
He has been ordered to pay £8,000 in court costs, with the balance as compensation for psychological stress suffered and maintaining the child during his school years.
The patient
2006-11-15 11:36:16 · 4 answers · asked by bolounit1 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
The patient, identified only as Signora A.S., a housewife married to a builder, already had two children when she gave birth to a baby boy on New Year's Eve, 1996, despite having undergone an operation on her fallopian tubes to prevent further pregnancies.
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Pasqualetto had utilised a rare technique, injecting a kind of surgical "super-glue" under local anaesthetic, to close the fallopian tubes, a less invasive method than the traditional surgery.
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He claimed he explained to Signora A.S. that there was a 15 in a 1,000 chance that the procedure wouldn't work, but the patient denied this to the court.
2006-11-15 11:36:47 · update #1
'Obligation'
Dr Pasqualetto said: "It's quite a rare technique here (in Italy) but is routine in the USA."
He added: "The operation went well, then after two years Mother Nature found otherwise, but I find it incredible that a doctor has to answer for a physiological healing
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Enrico Cornelio, the woman¿s lawyer said: "It wasn't Mother Nature's fault, but the fault of the wrong method.
"The contract signed with the doctor amounted to an obligation of the outcome, not of the method.
"It's not enough that the doctor did his best, the guarantee of results is necessary."
Signora A.S., now aged 45, argued that the third pregnancy prevented her from returning to work.
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She said: "I don't hate the doctor. What struck me was his cynicism, because he took the liberty of changing the direction of my life in a way I didn't want."
She complained that Dr Pasqualetto never apologised for the failure of the operation.
When her pregnancy test proved positive, she says, "He just suggested an abortion; he said 'don't worry Signora, we'll get rid of it'.
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2006-11-15 11:38:04 · update #3
I have heard of this and heard there is no guarantee. But it could be considered malpractice too. If you went in for a leg amputation and they cut off an arm would you want some kind of justification.
2006-11-15 11:40:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He should have been made to pay even more. Perhaps in the entire story the real point is that a higher power decides who gets to have children. Many years ago I had a vasectomy only to later have a daughter. No doubt about paternity as she unfortunately looked like me and also my girlfriend also became pregnant and produced a child that had my features instead of her husbands. Life goes on.
2006-11-15 19:43:09 · answer #2 · answered by mr conservative 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, case he really messed up the girls life plans....
2006-11-15 19:39:23 · answer #3 · answered by keithr2003 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
he made the mistake,,now he must pay for it!
2006-11-15 19:43:16 · answer #4 · answered by kkahn9dodge 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋