{"id":1909,"date":"2017-11-23T12:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2018-09-07T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T16:00:19","slug":"discovery-medical-center-emails-issue-lawsuit-experimental-surgery-gone-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/discovery-medical-center-emails-issue-lawsuit-experimental-surgery-gone-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of Medical Center Emails at Issue in Lawsuit over Experimental Surgery Gone Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medical malpractice lawsuits require that hospitals, medical professionals, and other named defendants disclose their medical records so that a plaintiff can make a case for negligence. This most frequently occurs during the pre-trial stages of litigation. Although courts prefer that litigants navigate this process without judicial intervention, sometimes litigation disputes emerge as to what should be disclosed to the plaintiff. This is happening in a medical negligence case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, in which the court compelled the hospital to disclose emails related to an experimental surgery performed on the plaintiff. While this case does not affect New York hospital malpractice cases, it illustrates some of the practical issues that may arise.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff alleged in the original lawsuit that a hospital surgeon performed an experimental bariatric surgery on a mentally disabled patient without his consent. The complaint alleged that the defendant surgeon performed bariatric surgery on the plaintiff in 2009, causing the plaintiff to begin experiencing respiratory issues. He began experiencing other complications and underwent a subsequent surgery to reverse the bariatric surgery procedure. During this reversal surgery, the surgeons allegedly discovered that the defendant surgeon had not properly performed a bariatric procedure. The complaint that was actually performed was an experimental one, which was conducted, according to the complaint, without the patient&#8217;s consent. The plaintiff&#8217;s claims survived a pre-trial motion for dismissal earlier in the month. However, after this ruling, the judge was asked to rule on the admissibility of several emails into evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The emails in question were between hospital personnel. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff and admitted the emails into evidence because they were not, as the defendant claimed, protected by the work-product doctrine or attorney-client privilege. Another string of emails, however, was ruled to be protected and inadmissible.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/discovery-medical-center-emails-issue-lawsuit-experimental-surgery-gone-wrong\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Discovery of Medical Center Emails at Issue in Lawsuit over Experimental Surgery Gone Wrong\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical malpractice lawsuits require that hospitals, medical professionals, and other named defendants disclose their medical records so that a plaintiff can make a case for negligence. This most frequently occurs during the pre-trial stages of litigation. Although courts prefer that litigants navigate this process without judicial intervention, sometimes litigation disputes emerge as to what should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hospital-negligence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Discovery of Medical Center Emails at Issue in Lawsuit over Experimental Surgery Gone Wrong &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; November 23, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Medical malpractice lawsuits require that hospitals, medical professionals, and other named defendants disclose their medical records so that a plaintiff &#8212; November 23, 2017\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/discovery-medical-center-emails-issue-lawsuit-experimental-surgery-gone-wrong\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Discovery of Medical Center Emails at Issue in Lawsuit over Experimental Surgery Gone Wrong &#8212; 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