This case involves a healthy sixty-two-year-old female patient with no significant past medical history who presented to a medical facility for a routine colonoscopy to remove polyps. She was discharged shortly after the procedure. She returned to the medical center’s…
This case involves a woman who elected to undergo a laparoscopic hysterectomy using robotic myomectomy. She presented to her OBGYN with abdominal pain related to adhesions from a previous colectomy. The original OBGYN who was consulted elected to use the…
This case involves a forty-seven-year-old mother at thirty-one weeks gestation who delivered via cesarean section. The mother had a past medical history of chronic hypertension and diabetes mellitus. The patient experienced some painless vaginal bleeding the day of delivery, and…
This case involves a thirty-two-year-old female who gave birth with the assistance of a midwife and no complications were noticed during the vaginal delivery. Several weeks later, the patient began to develop abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding, and it was…
This case involves a sixty-eight-year-old woman who presented to her gynecologist complaining of vaginal prolapse. The physician recommended that the patient should undergo surgery because he claimed no other conservative methods would work on her condition. The patient underwent a laparoscopic…
This case involves a sixty-two-year-old woman who presented to her women’s health clinic complaining of severe postmenopausal bleeding along with pelvic organ prolapse. The patient underwent several rounds of diagnostic testing and her physician suggested that her issue would be…
The case involves a patient who experienced a nicked peritoneum during a renal transplant procedure. The nicked peritoneum was mentioned in the medical record, but the defending physician denied that he had any knowledge of its occurrence. He claimed he…
This case involves a female patient that underwent surgery to excise a sacrocolpopexy mesh that eroded into her vaginal wall. Postoperatively, the patient was afebrile and vitals were noted to be normal. The following day, the patient began to suffer…
This case involves a seven-year-old female who presented to the ER with abdominal pain. She had a medical history significant for developmental delay and, several months prior, required the placement of an intravenous total parenteral nutrition feeding tube (TPN). The…