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A bloodbath was how she described it. She came home from lunch and found her husband
dead on the floor with blood splattered everywhere, all over the bathroom. Want to find out what
happened? Come on in, join me. I’m Gerry Oginski. I’m a New York medical malpractice
and personal injury trial attorney practicing law here in the state of New York. I had the
privilege of representing this woman in a case against the dialysis center that her
husband had been going to. It turns out that her husband was getting dialysis every other
day. And a few days before the fateful event where she comes home and finds her husband
dead on the floor, with blood splattered everywhere, he had been complaining to the nurses at the
dialysis center about a problem with the shunt in his arm where he would get dialysis. They
didn’t think anything of it and they finally sent him home on that fateful day thinking
no big deal. Well what happened was that the shunt ruptured – it burst. And why did it
rupture and burst? Because it was infected. And how do we know that? Because the medical
examiner of the city of New York did an autopsy, which is an examination of this gentleman
after he had died. And the conclusions they came to showed this shunt was infected and
the hole for the shunt had gotten bigger and bigger, to the point where once it ruptures
you have no ability to stop it. So what happened? Once he came home it turned out that he ran
to the bathroom and he was pulling off bandages left and right to try and open it to stop
the bleeding. He was grabbing a towel. But guess what? Nothing is going to stop it once
it ruptures. There was blood on the ceiling, blood on the walls, blood on the floor. It
looked like a *** scene. But only after detectives combed through the house and talked
to the wife did they begin to realize that this had nothing to do with any criminal activity.
Rather it had to do with his shunt rupturing. And we were able to show that it was the dialysis
center’s carelessness that resulted in not treating this infected shunt. Because if they
had recognized it, they would have sent him immediately to the emergency room and unfortunately
this man died because of the carelessness and the negligence of the dialysis center.
So why do I tell you this? I tell you this because you may find yourself in a similar
situation and you or your loved one suffered a significant injury and you have questions
whether or not something was done properly. If you have those questions, what I want you
to do is two things. First, I want you to press that button below that says “Like.”
This way all of your friends on Facebook and YouTube will get the benefit of the same exact
information that you just got. Second, I want you to pick up the phone and call me. I answer
legal questions like these every single day and I welcome your call. You can reach me
at 516-487-8207 or by email at lawmed10@yahoo.com. I’m Gerry Oginski, here in New York. Thanks
for watching.