{"id":614,"date":"2012-06-30T18:50:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2012-06-30T19:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:57:04","slug":"cleveland-oh-woman-loses-limbs-to-flesh-eating-virus-suing-doctor-for-medical-malpractice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/cleveland-oh-woman-loses-limbs-to-flesh-eating-virus-suing-doctor-for-medical-malpractice\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland, OH Woman Loses Limbs to Flesh-Eating Virus\u2014Suing Doctor for Medical Malpractice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Forty six year-old Lisa-Marie Carter is suing her doctor in a medical malpractice lawsuit after he\u00a0perforated her bowel during an outpatient ovarian cyst removal surgery.<\/strong> The wound resulted in\u00a0necrotizing fasciitis, a potentially deadly flesh-eating bacterium, which is a rare and serious disease that\u00a0can destroy body tissue, skin and fat. <strong>After what should have been a four-hour surgery, Carter left the\u00a0hospital a full six months later- without her hands or her feet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w-KfNEV4EVE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Carter claims that her doctor accidentally sliced through her bowel during her November 2010\u00a0procedure, but failed to notice the mistake. <strong>Her complaint filed in court alleges that when she used the\u00a0restroom the next day, her incision opened up, releasing \u201ccopious\u201d amounts of fluid.<\/strong> Three days later,\u00a0her doctor inspected the wound, found that the bowel had been sliced, and discovered the <strong>flesh-eating\u00a0bacteria<\/strong>. He cut that part of her stomach away, and Carter underwent another eight operations over the\u00a0course of the next 12 days to remove more of her stomach, intestines and muscle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carter\u2019s forearms and lower legs had to be amputated when doctors realized they weren&#8217;t getting\u00a0sufficient blood flow.<\/strong> She now endures rehabilitation sessions in which she must learn how to live with\u00a0prosthetic limbs.<\/p>\n<p>If you, a friend or your loved one has suffered substantial personal injuries or a wrongful death as the\u00a0result of Massachusetts medical malpractice, please call the <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-medical-malpractice-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Boston, MA medical malpractice lawyer<\/a>\u00a0advocates at the Boston Law Offices of Gilbert R. Hoy, Jr. and Affiliates <strong>24 hours a day, 7 days a week<\/strong>, at\u00a0<strong>617-787-3700<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts medical malpractice personal injury attorney professionals at our full service <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-boston-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Boston,\u00a0MA personal injury lawyer<\/a> law firm are some of the most highly skilled attorneys the Commonwealth\u00a0has to offer and will work diligently to get you and your family the <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-personal-injury-damages.php\">personal injury damages<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-personal-injury-damages-wrongful-death.php\">wrongful\u00a0death damages<\/a> you deserve under the facts of your Massachusetts medical malpractice claim.<\/p>\n<p>Our Boston, Massachusetts medical malpractice lawyer specialists are available to you <strong>24\/7 at 617-787-3700<\/strong>. If more convenient, send us an email at <a href=\"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/massachusetts-boston-personal-injury-contact.php\">gilhoylaw@hotmail.com<\/a>. Please do not hesitate to\u00a0contact one of our Massachusetts medical mistake attorney advocates today for a free and confidential\u00a0consultation.<\/p>\n<p>Let our Boston lawyers help you. <strong>Your needs are our top priority!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty six year-old Lisa-Marie Carter is suing her doctor in a medical malpractice lawsuit after he\u00a0perforated her bowel during an outpatient ovarian cyst removal surgery. The wound resulted in\u00a0necrotizing fasciitis, a potentially deadly flesh-eating bacterium, which is a rare and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/cleveland-oh-woman-loses-limbs-to-flesh-eating-virus-suing-doctor-for-medical-malpractice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,16,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boston-personalinjury-lawyer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}