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The doctor swore under oath that this patient needed to have cataract surgery until his
own records proved that this patient was never a candidate for this cataract surgery. Would
you like to learn what this is about? Come join me as I share with you this remarkable
story. Hi. I'm Gerry Oginski. I'm a New York medical malpractice and personal injury trial
lawyer practicing law here in the state of New York. So the doctor tells the patient,
"Listen. I know you have a little bit of blurriness in one eye. We'll go ahead and do cataract
surgery and that will take care of the problem." Now the patient winds up calling me months
later. Why? Because she can't see out of that eye after the cataract surgery. Days turn
into weeks turn into months and she goes back to the eye doctor complaining about the fact
that she can't see. Doctor, why can't I see? You promised everything would be fine. Doctor,
why can't I see? "Oh, take this medication. Let's give it some more time. Everything will
be fine." It turned out, she wasn't fine. She lost total vision in that eye. And when
she came to me we obtained all the medical records. I had the medical records reviewed
by a number of eye experts, ophthalmology experts. And one of the first things they
told me was do you realize that this patient was never a candidate for cataract surgery
to begin with? And they went ahead and explained why. So now when I had an opportunity to question
the doctor (the eye doctor) at his question and answer session known as a deposition (or
an examination before trial), I asked him whether or not this patient needed to have
surgery. And he came right out and swore this patient absolutely needed to have surgery.
Why? "Well, if she didn't have surgery her vision would get worse, things would continue
to deteriorate. And now is much better to do it earlier rather than later on." As I
went through the entire record during the doctor's question and answer session, it became
totally clear that this doctor never, ever should have performed cataract surgery on
this patient. There was clearly no indication. And what the doctor did was he convinced the
patient to have the surgery. And as a result of that, since this patient never needed the
cataract surgery and he was careless during the course of the procedure, this patient
lost vision in her eye. So why do I share this quick information with you? I share it
with you to give you a little bit of an insight and an understanding into what goes on in
handling a medical malpractice case here in the state of New York especially where there
is a violation of a standard of medical care, of good medical practice. I realize you're
watching this because you have questions or concerns about your own particular matter.
Well if your matter happened here in the state of New York and you do have legal questions,
what I encourage you to do is pick up the phone and call me. I can answer your legal
questions. This is something that I do every single day and I'd love to talk with you.
You can reach me at 516-487-8207 or by email at Gerry@Oginski-law.com. That's it for today's
quick video. I'm Gerry Oginski, have a wonderful day!