{"id":3710,"date":"2017-09-14T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2017-09-13T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:49:06","slug":"1-012-million-cook-county-jury-verdict-patient-bowel-puncture-medical-malpractice-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/1-012-million-cook-county-jury-verdict-patient-bowel-puncture-medical-malpractice-case\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.012 Million Cook County Jury Verdict for Patient&#8217;s Bowel Puncture in Medical Malpractice Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel Flores, 89, was admitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macneal.com\/\">MacNeal Hospital<\/a> in Berwyn, Ill., in January 2013 for complaints of leg pain. While he was there, an abdominal CT scan came back with abnormal results, which led the doctors to suspect possible colon cancer over diverticulitis.  <\/p>\n<p>The defendant gastroenterologist, Dr. Manuel Alva, did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/colorectal-cancer\/colonoscopy-16695#1\">colonoscopy<\/a> on Jan. 11, 2013. It showed there was no cancer. However, during the procedure Flores sustained a perforated colon, which led to nearly fatal sepsis, a colostomy for eleven months and later a colonostomy reversal surgery in combination totaled medical expenses of $201,950. <\/p>\n<p>Flores maintained at this jury trial that he refused to undergo the colonoscopy several times but the defendants, the physicians, persisted and persuaded him to do so without fully disclosing the risks and alternatives and thus choosing not to obtain Flores\u2019s informed consent.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/1-012-million-cook-county-jury-verdict-patient-bowel-puncture-medical-malpractice-case\/#more-3710\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezekiel Flores, 89, was admitted to MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill., in January 2013 for complaints of leg pain. 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