AFTER HOSPITAL LOSES PIECE OF MAN’S SKULL, HE SUES FOR PIECE OF MIND, AND A HUGE BILL
Accidents happen, all the time, and no one is immune from making them. Not you, not me, and certainly not hospital staff. But when someone who works for a hospital makes a mistake, it can create a cascade of problems for someone’s health, litigation fees, and everyone’s piece of mind. But speaking of which, how can anyone understand how a hospital can literally lose a piece of a man’s skull in the middle of his brain surgery? Because that totally happened for a patient in 2022, to one Fernando Cluster. And yes, this could technically be called a cluster fu$c by the hospital. Not surprisingly, Cluster is suing for the lost piece of his skull.
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DURING EMERGENCY SURGERY FOR A BRAIN BLEED, MAN’S PIECE OF SKULL WENT UNLABELED TO STORAGE
Cluster went to Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital Midtown for emergency surgery due to a brain bleed. And during that surgery, doctors for a brief time removed a 12×15 cm piece of Cluster’s skull, or a “brain flap.” The brain flap, or skull piece, was to be put back in his head in a later follow-up surgery. So where does a hospital put pieces of people they temporarily remove? Into a biological collection, or storage. So what happened? A lack of labeling, literally. Not only did they not label Cluster’s piece of skull, they didn’t label a number of other people’s pieces of skull. So they lost it to storage anonymity.
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AFTER SYNTHETIC SKULL PIECE REPLACEMENT, MAN HAD A DANGEROUS INFECTION AND A HUGE MEDICAL BILL
So what happened? Doctors instead sealed up his skull with a synthetic bone flap. But that meant an additional hospital stay, as well as another surgery to treat an infection from the synthetic bone flap. And that’s where this lawsuit makes even more sense, seeing how those issues then turned into a hospital bill of more than $146,000. Just imagine losing a piece of your skull to administrative medical incompetence, having to stay longer, needing to have another surgery to stay alive, and then getting that bill?
