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Unnecessary Surgery, Surgical Scar - Confidential

The plaintiff was a 60-year old woman who in 1990 had fallen while at work and sustained a lower back injury with disability. In 1994, she was diagnosed by the defendant neurosurgeon as having a herniated disk at L4/L5 level and she underwent a lumbar laminectomy. Pre-operative films allegedly showed no operative lesions nor did the clinical manifestations indicate surgery was needed at L4/L5. At the time of the surgery no intra-operative x-ray was utilized to locate the proper level. Instead of performing a laminectomy at the intended L4/L5 level, the surgery was in fact at the L3/L4 level. The surgery had no therapeutic benefits to the plaintiff and her symptoms remained unchanged pre- and post-surgery.

Awarded: Settlement - Confidential