They opened him as much as take away his appendix. They mistakenly took out way more, lawsuit says.

A Washington man who went to the emergency room over abdomen pains is suing a hospital and two medical doctors after he claims surgeons eliminated the unsuitable organ from his physique throughout surgical procedure.

George Piano and his spouse Elizabeth Piano, from Lake Forest Park, filed a medical malpractice lawsuit Nov. 2 in King County Superior Court following the Dec. 6 alleged botched surgical procedure, court docket data present.

The 13-page swimsuit names the University of Washington Medical Middle and two UW surgeons, Nidhi Udyavar and Paul Herman, as defendants within the case.

In response to the swimsuit, George Piano visited the hospital’s emergency room on Dec. 6, for belly ache, was identified with appendicitis, and brought into surgical procedure so medical doctors might take away his appendix.

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‘The bowel contents started to spill’

However throughout surgical procedure, the swimsuit claims, medical doctors have been unable to find the affected person’s appendix and, as an alternative, eliminated part of his bowel.

“Following surgical procedure, Mr. Piano started to expertise belly ache which was worse than earlier than his surgical procedure,” his attorneys Ed Moore and Van Shaw wrote in a press launch. “The bowel contents started to spill into his belly cavity inflicting him to turn into a lot sicker.”

Two days later, in keeping with the discharge, Piano was suggested {that a} CT scan revealed his appendix was by no means eliminated throughout the surgical procedure. On Dec. 8, Piano went again into surgical procedure on the identical hospital and medical doctors eliminated his appendix.

In response to the lawsuit, a health care provider eliminated a bit of diverticulitis on Piano’s decrease colon − not on his appendix − and he wanted one other surgical procedure to restore a “leaky colon” and tackle an belly an infection brought on by the Dec. 6 surgical procedure.

“It’s been a hell of a 12 months,” Piano informed USA TODAY Tuesday. “I’m not the identical particular person I used to be when this began.’

“After I awoke and got here out of the medicine, I used to be in critical ache. A lot worse than I had been in after I went to the hospital,” he stated.

Piano stated that during the last 12 months, he spent 53 days within the hospital, misplaced about 40 kilos, has nervousness and has suffered short-term reminiscence loss because of the alleged medical mishap.

He stated he and his spouse didn’t wish to file the lawsuit, however “after getting no response from the hospital,” they determined to.

“I really feel very fortunate that I’m nonetheless alive,”he stated. “We didn’t need it to occur to another person. Somebody wanted to place a cease to this and take duty and say this occurred − we have to take steps to ensure it doesn’t occur once more.”

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‘The absolute best care’

Susan Gregg, spokesperson for the College of Washington Drugs, stated the hospital couldn’t touch upon pending litigation however launched the next assertion to USA TODAY on Tuesday.

“UW Drugs strives to offer the absolute best care to all of our sufferers; their security and well-being is deeply necessary to us.”

The swimsuit seeks financial damages and calls for a jury trial.

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Attain her at nalund@usatoday.com and comply with her on X @nataliealund.

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