{"id":3864,"date":"2018-01-24T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2018-03-29T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T10:12:11","slug":"8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/","title":{"rendered":"$8.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Permanent Injury to Patient\u2019s Urethra During Catheterization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Hipps, 44, was to undergo abdominal surgery, which required stenting of his urethra. He consented to having the catherization done by the head of the urology department at Virginia Mason Medical Center<\/a>. While in the midst of the catherization, a urology fellow placed a tube inside Hipps\u2019s urethra, which met with resistance. The fellow then used a hemostat<\/a> to open the tip of Hipps\u2019s penis before placing the catheter inside the urethra. A hemostat, which is also called a hemostatic clamp, is a surgical tool most often used to control bleeding. <\/p>\n

As a result of the forced opening of the urethra, Hipps suffered a tear and developed scarring inside his urethra. He now suffers discomfort when engaging in intercourse and has difficulty urinating. <\/p>\n

Hipps sued the hospital alleging that the fellow negligently used the hemostat during the procedure and improperly dilated the urethra. The lawsuit did not include lost income.
\n Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew Hipps, 44, was to undergo abdominal surgery, which required stenting of his urethra. He consented to having the catherization done by the head of the urology department at Virginia Mason Medical Center. While in the midst of the catherization, a urology fellow placed a tube inside Hipps\u2019s urethra, which met with resistance. The fellow […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,4,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-errors","category-surgical-errors","category-urology-errors"],"yoast_head":"\n$8.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Permanent Injury to Patient\u2019s Urethra During Catheterization — Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Matthew Hipps, 44, was to undergo abdominal surgery, which required stenting of his urethra. He consented to having the catherization done by the head of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"$8.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Permanent Injury to Patient\u2019s Urethra During Catheterization — Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Matthew Hipps, 44, was to undergo abdominal surgery, which required stenting of his urethra. He consented to having the catherization done by the head of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Kreisman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"$8.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Permanent Injury to Patient\u2019s Urethra During Catheterization — Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog","description":"Matthew Hipps, 44, was to undergo abdominal surgery, which required stenting of his urethra. He consented to having the catherization done by the head of","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"$8.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Permanent Injury to Patient\u2019s Urethra During Catheterization — Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog","twitter_description":"Matthew Hipps, 44, was to undergo abdominal surgery, which required stenting of his urethra. He consented to having the catherization done by the head of","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Robert Kreisman","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/"},"author":{"name":"Robert Kreisman","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5b2d28415814d7b490e5cf83de4d29f9"},"headline":"$8.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Permanent Injury to Patient\u2019s Urethra During Catheterization","datePublished":"2018-01-24T16:00:52+00:00","dateModified":"2018-03-29T10:12:11+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/"},"wordCount":338,"articleSection":["Hospital Errors","Surgical Errors","Urology Errors"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/","name":"$8.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Permanent Injury to Patient\u2019s Urethra During Catheterization — Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-01-24T16:00:52+00:00","dateModified":"2018-03-29T10:12:11+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5b2d28415814d7b490e5cf83de4d29f9"},"description":"Matthew Hipps, 44, was to undergo abdominal surgery, which required stenting of his urethra. He consented to having the catherization done by the head of","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/8-5-million-jury-verdict-permanent-injury-patients-urethra-catherization\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"$8.5 Million Jury Verdict for the Permanent Injury to Patient\u2019s Urethra During Catheterization"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/","name":"Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog","description":"Published by Medical Malpractice Attorney \u2014 Robert Kreisman","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5b2d28415814d7b490e5cf83de4d29f9","name":"Robert Kreisman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Robert Kreisman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/"]}]}},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7HE1v-10k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}