{"id":431,"date":"2011-09-28T16:16:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T22:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.lawblogger.net\/2011\/09\/28\/cook_county_surgeons_cut_commo_1\/"},"modified":"2016-07-05T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:10:30","slug":"cook_county_surgeons_cut_commo_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/cook_county_surgeons_cut_commo_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook County Surgeons Cut Common BIle Duct During Surgery, But Jury Finds for Defendants &#8211; Irwin v. Alan Loren, M.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In medical malpractice lawsuits, there is sometimes a thin line between what constitutes negligence and what does not.  Take for example the Cook County lawsuit of <em>Jennifer Irwin v. Alan B. Loren, M.D. and Daniel R. Conway, M.D., Advanced Surgical Associates, S.C.<\/em>, 08 L 2760.  The defendant doctors committed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/category\/surgical-errors\/\">surgical error<\/a> while removing the plaintiff&#8217;s gallbladder; however, the jury found the doctors were not guilty of medical negligence.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery at issue in <em>Irwin<\/em> took place at Northwest Community Hospital in March 2006.  The 43 year-old plaintiff was scheduled to have her gallbladder removed in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surgery.usc.edu\/divisions\/tumor\/pancreasdiseases\/web%20pages\/BILIARY%20SYSTEM\/laparoscopic%20chole.html\">laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedure<\/a> performed by Dr. Alan Loren.  Performing a surgery laparoscopically means that the surgeon relies on a camera to see inside the body&#8217;s internal structures.  Doing so allows the surgeon to make a much smaller incision and drastically decrease recovery time.  However, this also means that the surgeon is not directly looking at the relevant organs and needs to correctly interpret what is seen on the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in Ms. Irwin&#8217;s case, Dr. Loren did not correctly interpret the camera&#8217;s images, at least not at first.  Dr. Loren initially misidentified Irwin&#8217;s common bile duct as the cystic duct.  As a result of this misidentification, Dr. Loren incorrectly clamped the common bile duct with surgical clips and cut it.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medterms.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=2804\">common bile duct<\/a> is responsible for carrying bile from the liver and gallbladder into the upper part of the small intestine and is an important component of the digestion process.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/cook_county_surgeons_cut_commo_1\/#more-431\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In medical malpractice lawsuits, there is sometimes a thin line between what constitutes negligence and what does not. Take for example the Cook County lawsuit of Jennifer Irwin v. Alan B. Loren, M.D. and Daniel R. Conway, M.D., Advanced Surgical Associates, S.C., 08 L 2760. 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