{"id":4202,"date":"2018-10-23T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2018-10-22T07:04:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:04:31","slug":"43-33-million-jury-verdict-for-hospitals-failure-to-prevent-medical-practice-by-physician-who-lacked-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/43-33-million-jury-verdict-for-hospitals-failure-to-prevent-medical-practice-by-physician-who-lacked-privileges\/","title":{"rendered":"$43.33 Million Jury Verdict for Hospital\u2019s Failure to Prevent Medical Practice by Physician Who Lacked Privileges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Pierce, 61, was admitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/ardenthealth.com\/press\/east-texas-medical-center-ardent-and-university-texas-system-are-coming-together-further\">East Texas Medical Center <\/a>complaining of stomach pain and vomiting. Gastroenterologist Dr. Gary Boyd diagnosed bile duct stones, acute pancreatitis and cholangitis. Pierce developed sepsis and multi-organ failure. Another gastroenterologist evaluated Pierce and removed his bile duct stones. Pierce recovered after this surgical procedure but subsequently developed worsened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/healthlibrary\/conditions\/liver_biliary_and_pancreatic_disorders\/cholangitis_85,P00660\">cholangitis<\/a>, which necessitated a liver transplant.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce had been a senior vice president of a chemical company and was earning $900,000 per year, but he is now unable to work. <\/p>\n<p>Pierce sued the hospital, Dr. Boyd and two other treating gastroenterologists. He alleged that the hospital negligently allowed Dr. Boyd to practice when the state medical board had suspended his medical privileges and that Dr. Boyd chose not to remove the bile duct stones, which led to sepsis and the multi-organ failure.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/43-33-million-jury-verdict-for-hospitals-failure-to-prevent-medical-practice-by-physician-who-lacked-privileges\/#more-4202\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Pierce, 61, was admitted to East Texas Medical Center complaining of stomach pain and vomiting. Gastroenterologist Dr. Gary Boyd diagnosed bile duct stones, acute pancreatitis and cholangitis. Pierce developed sepsis and multi-organ failure. Another gastroenterologist evaluated Pierce and removed his bile duct stones. Pierce recovered after this surgical procedure but subsequently developed worsened cholangitis, [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,43,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damages","category-gallbladder-surgery","category-hospital-errors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$43.33 Million Jury Verdict for Hospital\u2019s Failure to Prevent Medical Practice by Physician Who Lacked Privileges &#8212; Chicago Medical Malpractice Attorney Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Billy Pierce, 61, was admitted to East Texas Medical Center complaining of stomach pain and vomiting. 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