A seventy-year-old woman who suffered from both legs after a medical error during which she underwent surgery on the wrong knee, expressed her regret for not receiving adequate compensation, even though the doctor praised her because of her new knees.
“I suffer from constant pain in my right knee. [Ça] “It is ruining my life,” Marie-Jeanne Gurlet, 71, said last Tuesday, in an interview with the French newspaper Le Progress, citing Le Figaro.
The septuagenarian's ordeal began in April 2022, when she underwent surgery due to osteoarthritis in her left knee, in order to place a prosthetic limb there.
However, when she woke up, the French woman from Villefranche-sur-Saône, in the Rhône region, realized that it was her right knee that had been operated on, and she immediately informed the nurse at her bedside.
She said, according to the French newspaper: “The color of her face changed.” The doctor apologized and shed a tear. He immediately offered me an appointment the following month to have surgery on my left knee, but I didn't want to be completely paralyzed.
To correct the situation, a second operation was scheduled for next August, this time targeting the left knee, according to Progress information.
However, at the same time, the woman began to suffer from abnormal pain in her right knee, due to the poor installation of the prosthetic limb and the entry of a nail into her flesh, which forced her to surrender for the third time. operations room.
But despite all this history and the pain she still suffers years later, the septuagenarian would only have received compensation of 1,500 euros, or approximately $2,190, even if she could no longer “stay still for more than 15 minutes,” [se] She denounced walking or taking long car trips.
Moreover, she indicated that she doubted the integrity of the doctor appointed by the insurance companies for her case, after he estimated that she “should have had surgery on her right knee one day” and therefore she now had “two new knees,” the septuagenarian lamented.
“Other medical evaluations are ongoing. The reasons for this human error were analysed. Measures are being implemented to enhance patient safety in the operating room.”
