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Welcome and thank you for joining me. I’m Gerry Oginski, a New York medical malpractice
and personal injury trial lawyer practicing law here in the state of New York. So what
is today’s video tip? It’s about a gentleman who had a kidney problem and during the course
of treating his kidney problem, it turns out that he had a small mini stroke. And now the
doctors are giving him a certain medication, a particular blood thinner. But what happened
was the gentleman needed to have a surgical procedure done and many of you will know that
if you are on a blood thinner, you cannot have surgery. Why not? Because the moment
you make that incision, what’s the purpose of a blood thinner? So that the blood does
not congeal and clot, you don’t want the blood to be able to clot because it may form
another stroke. Well, that’s great but if you have to have surgery, you have to go off
of your blood thinner medication. In this particular gentleman’s case, he had the
kidney procedure everything went well. And there was a note in the chart that specifically
said “Put patient back on blood thinners after procedure.” Well, guess what? Nobody
bothered to read that order or read that doctor’s note. So now six hours go by, he’s not getting
any blood thinner. Twelve hours go by, twenty-four hours go by, he’s not on any blood thinner.
So what ultimately happened? Thirty-six hours later, he now suffers a major problem. He’s
having difficulty breathing. The doctors come rushing in, they do all their tests, they
realize and they think that this patient suffered a pulmonary embolus, which means a stroke
to the lungs that’s causing him difficulty breathing. And they said you know what? We
now have to give him all the blood thinners necessary because as a result of the failure
to give him blood thinners in a timely fashion, this patient did not reach therapeutic levels
– which means that the concentration of the blood thinners was not enough to make
his blood thin enough to prevent clots. And as a result of that, this gentleman suffered
another stroke called a “saddle embolus” which killed him. And the family didn’t
know about this until after an autopsy was done. And if he had gotten the blood thinners
at the appropriate time, he’d still be alive today. And by the way, if you have additional
questions and you want to learn about how lawsuits like these work in New York, then
please explore my website. I have tons of information on there you’re going to love.
It educates you. I have hundreds of frequently asked questions. I’ve got hundreds of tips.
I’ve got free books that you can download immediately to learn and to educate you about
how cases like these work. And by the way, if you have legal questions then I strongly
encourage you to pick up the phone and call me since I can answer your legal questions.
That’s what I do for a living and that’s why I’m here, to answer your legal questions.
So you can call me at 516-487-8207 or by email at lawmed10@yahoo.com. And that’s it for
today’s video tip. I want to thank you for joining me here in New York. I’m Gerry Oginski.
Have a great day!