{"id":7847,"date":"2019-05-02T11:28:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=7847"},"modified":"2020-04-21T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:10:26","slug":"patient-has-her-sights-on-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/patient-has-her-sights-on-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Has Her Sights on Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An eye for an eye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We only get two eyes. \u00a0If we lose one, it does not grow back. \u00a0If damaged, the optic nerve cannot be transplanted.\u00a0 When it is necessary to undergo surgery on the eye, or eyes, trust the operating doctor and read all paperwork in its entirety.\u00a0 In August 2017, Sutton Dryfhout granted her pediatric ophthalmologist permission to operate on her left eye to correct a lazy eye and remove a cyst.\u00a0 In a lawsuit filed in Cook County, IL recently, Dryfhout claims that her trusted doctor not only operated on the incorrect eye, but also falsified already signed paperwork. Dryfhout now suffers from continuous optical complications, including double vision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr. Benjamin Ticho denies all claims against him in the lawsuit, including the use of the term \u201cmedical battery.\u201d\u00a0 The only comment Dr. Ticho has provided in response to this lawsuit is the accusations against him are \u201cunfair.\u201d\u00a0 It may be safe to assume that Dryfhout did not think it was fair for Dr. Ticho to negligently operate<\/a> on the wrong eye, and then try to cover it up by adjusting the consent form. \u00a0Prior to undergoing surgery, Dryfhout provided consent for Dr. Ticho to operate on her left eye.\u00a0 Once the mistake was discovered, Dr. Ticho asked the plaintiff\u2019s mother to sign her initials on the consent form, indicating a change in surgery to the right eye, instead of on the initially agreed upon left eye.<\/p>\n

Dryfhout first realized that the ophthalmologist operated on the incorrect eye when she woke up from anesthesia in the recovery room, to a throbbing and bloody right eye.\u00a0 The then 19-year-old expressed her concerns to the recovery room nurse, insisting that they touched the wrong eye. The nurse alerted the doctor, who immediately operated on Dryfhout\u2019s left eye, without anesthesia, in the recovery room.\u00a0 Dryfhout remembers begging the doctor to stop touching her eye with several unsterile instruments, including scissors, a needle, and a cautery pen.\u00a0 Based on Dryfhout\u2019s account of this entire incident, she has taken legal action against Dr. Ticho for medical battery and negligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We only get two eyes. \u00a0If we lose one, it does not grow back. \u00a0If damaged, the optic nerve cannot be transplanted.\u00a0 When it is necessary to undergo surgery on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[2632,524,453,33,2633,131],"class_list":["post-7847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawsuits","tag-eyes","tag-lawsuit","tag-medical-malpractice","tag-negligence","tag-ophthalmologist","tag-personal-injury-2"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8278,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7847\/revisions\/8278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}