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re: Woman wins massive settlement after bladder mistakenly removed during surgery

Posted on 7/30/26 at 10:45 am to
Posted by faraway
Member since Nov 2022
4325 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 10:45 am to
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and this guy clearly fricked up.
he's a woman
Posted by DoomGuy504
Member since May 2024
622 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 10:54 am to
quote:

and this guy clearly fricked up.
he's a woman


Well he sounds hideous.
Posted by Huey Lewis
BR
Member since Oct 2013
5199 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 10:55 am to
I don't know if all the worst surgeons are women but I do know all the best ones are men.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
60535 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 11:05 am to
Was the doctor a dei or an Indian?
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
106505 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 11:22 am to
She's kind of cute. Not guilty maybe.
Posted by 9Fiddy
19th Hole
Member since Jan 2007
67254 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 11:49 am to
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Danielle Paige (Scribner) Gagnon MD

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ETA: Danielle looks like she possibly grew up as Danny through grade school.
This post was edited on 7/30/26 at 11:55 am
Posted by MKP2004
Member since Mar 2026
1076 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 11:52 am to


Posted by ChatGPT of LA
Member since Mar 2023
8035 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 12:00 pm to
Bitch moved all the way to Alaska, from Maine. Talk about running away from your past
Posted by BigPapiDoesItAgain
Amérique du Nord
Member since Nov 2009
3574 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 12:49 pm to
This is awful and tragic, and likely a failure on many levels. That being said, I've been in many an abdomen and/or pelvis that it is nearly impossible to tell what is what and the answer is identify a known point of reference with complete certainty and work toward the offending organ or structure from known to unknown and if you can't go any farther, get another set of hands/eyes that can or stop to fight again another day. You get a patient that has stage IV endometriosis, or has had pelvic inflammatory disease/tubo-ovarian abscess or prior colectomy for Crohn's disease or ruptured diverticulum, etc and it can make a complete mess of the anatomy.

I'm guessing this most likely had to be an endometriosis case and very likely in a woman that had already had an ovary-sparing hysterectomy, with severe anatomic architectural disruption. Even then one would expect with a foley catheter in and back filling the bladder, one would be able to delineate the bladder margins. Also you would think the surgeon would have tried to identify the ureter at the pelvic brim where it crosses over the common iliac and it can almost always be identified then open the peritoneum there and work downward, which can at least get you pointed toward where the ureter tunnels into the bladder trigone. If you are taking an ovary you should 100% of the time identify the course of the ureter as it crosses over the blood supply to the ovary (infundibulopelvic ligament) anyways in order to isolate that vascular pedicle, so dissecting out the course of the ureter almost surely would've helped here.

I can envision a situation with the anatomy so distorted how it could happen, but still of course should never happen to have a bladder injury to the degree that it cannot be reconstructed (excepting of course a procedure where it is removed due to an invasive malignancy which can be the case in advanced stage or recurrent cervix cancer). Awful story, hate to hear of such things.
This post was edited on 7/30/26 at 6:43 pm
Posted by Barrister
Member since Jul 2012
5363 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 12:52 pm to
In Louisiana, she would have been limited to $500K for everything - - all the hell she has and will go through. All the quality of life sold for $500K.... except future medical - - - and even then, all her future medical would be held by the State and she would have to go to her case manager hat in hand everytime she needed something.



Posted by Ingeniero
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2013
23732 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 12:52 pm to
quote:

I've been in many an abdomen and/or pelvis that it is nearly impossible to tell what is what


So have I, but I'm no doctor

Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
11143 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 1:00 pm to
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Did her nose obstruct her vision during the surgery???
Posted by T1gerNate
Member since Feb 2020
4393 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 1:03 pm to
Appreciate the comment, doc
Posted by Pikes Peak Tiger
Colorado Springs
Member since Jun 2023
10448 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 1:08 pm to
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They did not cut out her entire bladder. They removed a portion of it


Maybe you should read the whole story where they say she did not have enough remaining bladder to repair/reconstruct.
Posted by Pikes Peak Tiger
Colorado Springs
Member since Jun 2023
10448 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 1:10 pm to
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Like I said, it's definitely malpractice and inexcusable. However they did not "remove her bladder" as the news story states


Not sure what point you are trying to make here.

They removed her bladder. Perhaps not 100% of it, but enough of it that repair was not possible.

Congrats, you made a distinction without a difference.
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
38548 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 1:15 pm to
How does this happen? When my mom had knee replacement, 3 different people came in and asked her to state why she was there, then one of them drew a big circle around her left knee to indicate which knee was being cut on, then everyone signed papers.

It is unfathomable to me that with all the checks and balances in place, an error like this could occur.
Posted by slidingstop
Member since Jan 2025
2683 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 1:17 pm to
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Danielle


now we see the problem.
Posted by slidingstop
Member since Jan 2025
2683 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 1:23 pm to
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How does this happen?



because not enough females and other minorities are populating the medical fields. Therefore, we get physicians like Danielle. Enjoy your diversity and empty your piss sac.
Posted by HagaDaga
Member since Oct 2020
8876 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 8:36 pm to
Drs name not mentioned early....Colter Law?
Posted by caro81
Member since Jul 2017
6631 posts
Posted on 7/30/26 at 9:42 pm to
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17M seems like a reasonable amount to me.


frick that. this is a horrible case. This woman is going to suffer during her very shortened life. keep the 17m id rather have my bladder.
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