What does one do when the heart surgeon fails to listen to his conscious patient during stent op?

Question

They are conscious for a reason correct? To tell the doctor how they are feeling throughout the procedure. Smoke repeatedly told the doctor that something was wrong and that he was in pain. (He had gone through this procedure before and knew what discomfort to expect.) The doctor him "well some folks are more sensitive to pain than others" and ignored his pleas. Turns out that the stent had torn the vessel. Any thoughts?

During his first stent procedure the vessel involved tore..twice..in fact. This doctor caught it and he put two more stents in. This time the doc not only did not catch it, but he came out and told me how "well everything went" while at the same time Smoke is in the back having another heart attack.

J'adore, I personally do not think Smoke wants to go through the hassle of suing this doc. The thought of the pain and fear that he must have experienced back there just makes me insane. This doc needs to be "put in check" at the very least by his peers. This is not about suing. This is about accountability.

The doc himself did admit that the tear created a flap that caused the blockage and resulted in the attack. To his credit this doc was not evasive and did not attempt to lie.

Answer 1

First and foremost, find a new doc.

Second, report him to the hospital. Let them know what you went through so that they can have the opportunity to take any measures they can to prevent other patients from going through what you've been through.

Third, do sue. Medical malpractice suits exist to ensure that there are real consequences for doctors who do poorly. It is unfortunate that such suits are all too often used for personal gain when a doc did nothing wrong but this is not the case here. Smoke's doc did very, very wrong. Suing will cause him financial repercussions along with significantly upping the cost of his malpractice insurance. Hopefully this will be enough to make him be more careful in the future and listen when his patients are telling him something is wrong. And, frankly, the more money you can get out of him the more effectively he will learn that lesson.

I hope Smoke is doing well now.

Answer 2

Absolutely find a new doctor, report the one that performed the procedure and even a lawsuit to publicize his malpractice might be in order!
Doctors (especially surgeons) have a habit of thinking that what they know is best without taking the patients input into consideration. Not all doctors are this way, by any means, but their grueling training can hoist them up on a pedestal and they need to be reminded that health-care is a team sport!

Answer 3

You wont be able to sue over that....

my daughter was damaged in a Nuss procedure by children's pittsburgh hospital..... they inserted a bar in her chest... well turns out these people never followed protocol and released her without doing post op testing... because of their lack of service, she ended up in the ER with an out of place bar that was resting on her heart...

she had to go in for emergency surgery in VA where the procedure was invented... The doctors were appaled at the damage that was done and gave me list of reccommended malpractice lawyers...

I contacted 8 of them and none of them would take the case because it would be to hard to prove.... even though we had the doctor who invented the procedure himself vouching for how bad Pgh hospital screwed it up...

a torn vessel isn't going to get you anything...

Change doctors and don't let the same one that screwed up work on you twice.

Answer 4

doctors/health professionals can never ignore complaints of pain. he is right that some ppl are more senstive than others, hence the reason some ppl need more pain meds than others! If that is what he did then he is breaking many ethical laws, and ignoring his duty of care, one word= sue.

Answer 5

new doctor, good lawyer

Answer 6

SUE.