Medical Malpractice

Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Surgery for gallbladder disease is the most common surgical procedure performed in the United States. More than 95% of these surgeries are done using a minimally invasive technique called Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy or Lap Choly. This surgery is done with small instruments and a television camera.
    
When performed by inexperienced, or careless surgeons, who have difficulty applying this technique to surgery on the gall bladder and other organs, it can lead to cutting and damaging the common bile duct, or hepatic ducts, which can lead to bile leaks, infection, bile peritonitis, abscess and death.  
    
Here are the common signs of laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery malpractice:

• Your doctor failed to immediately respond to your complaints after surgery.
• You had leaking that resulted in infection.
• You required additional or corrective surgery following the initial procedure.
• You needed to have your common bile duct dilated after surgery.
• You experienced excessive pain after surgery
• Your doctor did not monitor your post-operative recovery.

It is also crucial that the surgeon take the time to educate the patient and family on the symptoms that might be due to a bile leak.  Failure by healthcare providers to take the patient’s complaints seriously, and to act quickly, is a prime example of malpractice.
    
We advise patients to never hesitate to return to the emergency room if the surgeon is not taking your complaints seriously, or if you can’t get in touch with him or her.  Time is of the essence so that irreversible bile peritonitis and infection leading to organ failure and possibly death, doesn’t occur.  The presence of a leak can often be confirmed by common x-ray imaging studies.
    
If your laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery has taken a turn for the worse and has compromised your health, you should contact Paul Simonson immediately.  Mr. Simonson is a partner of our law firm, and he is one of the country’s leading experts on the subject of laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery malpractice.
    
As for his law firm, the New York and New Jersey laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery lawyers at Simonson Hess Leibowitz & Goodman have been representing victims of laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery from the time the procedure was first introduced.  We have recovered money for our clients in 98% of the laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery cases we have handled.   The total dollars we have recovered for our clients in medical malpractice cases have totaled in the millions of dollars.  To learn more, go to: lapcholymalractice.com

Collectively our partners have well more than one hundred years of experience representing victims of medical malpractice including laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery malpractice. Simonson Hess Leibowitz & Goodman is one of only seven law firms in New York City to be ranked by US News & World Report as a New York Tier 1 law firm in the category of Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs in 2010. One of our lawyers has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America, and three of our partners have been recognized in Super Lawyers.