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In October 2007 Tiffani Smith went to UAB Hospital with two weeks of severe headaches, and a CT scan showed a large unruptured aneurysm on an artery in her brain.

Brazeal sued his surgeon over complications from a total knee replacement in 2011.

A hospital patient’s rectum was perforated during enema treatments and he needed further procedures.

Fifteen month old Alex Clinkscales died in 2014 after a button battery eroded through his esophagus.

During gallbladder removal the surgeon cut the common bile duct, which required emergency reconstructive surgery.

A surgical sponge was left inside a patient, and removing it later took a painful operation.

Shelly Blackston had liposuction at a doctor’s office in Alexandria, Virginia, felt excruciating pain treated with more local anesthetic, and developed an infection within days at home in Maryland.

Amy Rygwall, who was non verbal, used a wheelchair and had daily seizures, aspirated food on New Year’s Eve 2015 at her group home.

Mary Cohan reported lumps in her left breast.

A young woman with Type 1 diabetes was found unresponsive in the hospital.

Hours after giving birth in 2012, Chenille Condon had chest discomfort and shortness of breath, and tests found nodules in her mediastinum.

A six month old boy had surgery at OHSU to remove a cancerous mass on his liver, and the surgeons inadvertently cut the blood vessels to his liver.

In April 2013, after an uncomplicated pregnancy, a baby’s head delivered with the cord around his neck and his shoulder then stuck under his mother’s pubic bone, an obstetric emergency called shoulder dystocia.

In a malpractice case against the University of Utah, the trial court refused to limit damages under the 2017 Governmental Immunity Act cap, reasoning that Condemarin v. University Hospital (1989) had already held a cap unconstitutional as applied to the hospital.

In 1984 a 12 week old boy was hospitalized for heart surgery.