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.
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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.
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'Obligation'
Dr Pasqualetto said: "It's quite a rare technique here (in Italy) but is routine in the USA."
2006-11-15 11:40:59 · 7 answers · asked by bolounit1 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
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 11:42:35 · update #2
Absolutely wrong.
He warned the patient that it isn't 100% effective, despite the fact that NO BIRTH CONTROL IS 100% EFFECTIVE. Sorry to use all caps, but I want to stress the importance.
Apart from all that, now the child is legally unwanted by the parents. For the rest of its life it will know it was a mistake.
2006-11-15 11:43:24 · answer #1 · answered by politechaos 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is insane! The child is going to know for the rest of his life he was so unwanted that his parents sued the doctor that was suppose to prevent the child from happening. Looks like the parents are really going to need that money for psychiatrist and medications for their depressed son later in life! How awful! They are totally after money!
2006-11-15 11:51:44 · answer #2 · answered by Kari 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that it is Wrong! Unless the doctor impregnated her NO he should not have to pay child support.
2006-11-15 11:45:00 · answer #3 · answered by mommy@18 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is wrong. Poor guy. She was told. She knew. I don't think that that is right that he should pay child support. That poor man. He should try to get visitations. :)
2006-11-15 13:44:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Totally wrong. That's horrible!
2006-11-15 11:44:48 · answer #5 · answered by Melissa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
makes me sick to see how people are soooo money hungry,when they don't deserve it...just people looking for a free ride in life..their called bums or losers...
2006-11-15 14:30:02 · answer #6 · answered by jan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
she knew it wasn't 100%. would she sue a condom company if she got pregnant while using condoms?
2006-11-15 11:47:26 · answer #7 · answered by Who Me? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋