Wrong-Leg Amputation Lawsuit
Ohio Woman Sues Hospitals After Surgeons Amputate Her Wrong Leg
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Sharon Jacks is suing hospitals, medical practices and physicians in Washington County, Ohio, alleging surgeons amputated her lower left leg when they were supposed to remove her lower right leg. The lawsuit says the team prepared and operated on the wrong leg despite two surgical time-outs intended to confirm the patient, procedure and surgical site. Jacks later had her right leg amputated as well, leaving her a double amputee; the complaint seeks compensatory and punitive damages for alleged physical, emotional and financial harms. Selby General Hospital said expected operating-room procedures were not followed and that the medical professionals involved are no longer in their positions.
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The lawsuit says Jacks’s right leg was eventually amputated because of a disease, not simply as a consequence of the wrong-leg operation.
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The complaint alleges the defendants showed “a conscious disregard of fundamental patient-safety principles universally recognized within the medical profession.”
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The lawsuit names Selby General Hospital, Marietta Memorial Hospital, Marietta Area Health Care, Marietta Health Care Physicians and First Settlement Orthopedics, along with multiple physicians.
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The complaint also lists lost earnings and humiliation among Jacks’s alleged harms.
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