{"id":307,"date":"2010-02-08T12:23:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.lawblogger.net\/2010\/02\/08\/cook_county_medical_malpractic_1\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T01:52:07","slug":"cook_county_medical_malpractic_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/cook_county_medical_malpractic_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook County Medical Malpractice Verdict Including Doctor\u2019s Financial Incentive for Surgery Affirmed By Illinois Appellate Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As patients we trust that our doctors are operating in our best interests rather than their own.  Furthermore we expect to be treated not as dollar signs, but as people.<br \/>\nUnfortunately a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/lawyer-attorney-1331861.html\">Cook County medical malpractice case<\/a> that came before an Illinois Appellate Court demonstrates that this is not always the reality.  In <em>Martinez v. Elias, et al.<\/em>, No. 1-08-0265, the plaintiff claimed that an orthopedic surgeon performed unnecessary surgery on his back and was motivated to do so for financial gain.<\/p>\n<p>The trial jury agreed with the plaintiff and found against the defendant surgeon.  The defendant doctor appealed the case on the claim that the trial court had erred in allowing the admission of evidence of the surgeon\u2019s financial motive for the surgery.  However, the Illinois Appellate Court disagreed with the defendant and affirmed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/lawyer-attorney-1331861.html\">Cook County medical malpractice verdict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/cook_county_medical_malpractic_1\/#more-307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As patients we trust that our doctors are operating in our best interests rather than their own. Furthermore we expect to be treated not as dollar signs, but as people. Unfortunately a recent Cook County medical malpractice case that came before an Illinois Appellate Court demonstrates that this is not always the reality. In Martinez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surgical-errors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cook County Medical Malpractice Verdict Including Doctor\u2019s Financial Incentive for Surgery Affirmed By Illinois Appellate Court &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As patients we trust that our doctors are operating in our best interests rather than their own. 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