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Surgeon Successfully Sued for Improvising in the Operating Room<\/p>\n

In a frankly baffling case, a Hawaii jury has awarded $5.5 million to the family of a man who had a screwdriver inserted into his spine, apparently without problem. The patient was operated on by Dr. Robert Ricketson at Hilo Medical Center for a spine problem. With the patient under anesthesia and the operation underway, the surgeon apparently realized the titanium rod needed was not available. Ricketson then fashioned a rod out of a piece of screwdriver and completed the operation. The patient reportedly did well and died two years later.<\/p>\n

After the patient’s death, the family sued the hospital not for a bad medical outcome but for wrongful credentialing of the surgeon to practice medicine, because of license restrictions in other states.<\/p>\n

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Surgeon Successfully Sued for Improvising in the Operating Room<\/b>.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a frankly baffling case, a Hawaii jury has awarded $5.5 million to the family of a man who had a screwdriver inserted into his spine, apparently without problem. The patient was operated on by Dr. Robert Ricketson at Hilo Medical Center for a spine problem. With the patient under anesthesia and the operation underway, the surgeon apparently realized the titanium rod needed was not available. Ricketson then fashioned a rod out of a piece of screwdriver and completed the operation. The patient reportedly did well and died two years later.<\/p>\n

After the patient’s death, the family sued the hospital not for a bad medical outcome but for wrongful credentialing of the surgeon to practice medicine, because of license restrictions in other states.<\/p>\n

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