You trust your doctor to do the right thing. When they don\u2019t, the consequences may be a lawsuit.<\/p>\n
This is perhaps one of the oddest cases ever reported. It has yet to make its way through the courts. A gynecologist of eminent stature is being sued for branding a patient\u2019s name on her uterus after he removed it. The branding was done with an electrocautery device.<\/p>\n
None of this would have come to light but for a follow-up visit to the doctor\u2019s office by the plaintiff, who wanted to know why her leg was burned during her operation. Things got weirder by the minute from that point on.<\/p>\n
This all started in 2006, when the doctor in question removed \u201cIngrid\u2019s\u201d uterus and then, for some unknown reason, carved her first name, in one inch high letters, on the organ. His contention was that he didn\u2019t want to confuse it with others, although he also (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You trust your doctor to do the right thing. When they don\u2019t, the consequences may be a lawsuit. This is perhaps one of the oddest cases ever reported. It has yet to make its way through the courts. A gynecologist…<\/span><\/p>\n