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Articles by Wendy Ketner, M.D.

Discharged Patient Suddenly Dies From Undiagnosed Heart Disease

This case involves a 70-year-old female that presented to the emergency room with a history of deep vein thrombosis. She complained of developing back, chest, and arm pain and numbness. Her physician discussed the high risk of the patient developing…

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Gynecologist Fails To Remove Patient’s Cervix During Hysterectomy

This case involves a 36-year-old female patient with a past medical history of a supracervical hysterectomy who developed pelvic pain and abnormal bleeding. The patient underwent a robotic trachelectomy to remove her cervix with no complications reported. Following the operation,…

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Delayed Meningitis Diagnosis Causes Developmental Complications For Infant

This case involves an 18-month-old child who was presented to her regular pediatrician with fever and vomiting. The pediatrician advised it was a viral infection and that the parents should let the infection run its course. After several days, the…

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Child Requires Neurological Examination After Suffering A Concussion

This case involves a 9-year-old female who suffered a head injury while playing at school. The girl was running on the playground and hit her head on the metal beams of the swingset. She fell unconscious as a result of…

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Patient Develops Blood Clotting Disorder From Testosterone Use

This case involves a 60-year-old male that was prescribed testosterone for 6 months. He was found to have a pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis at the end of the 6 months. Testing was done which showed he had developed…

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Child Suffers Herniated Disk Following Car Accident

This case involves a young boy who was in a car accident when he was 7-years-old. The defendant rear-ended the plaintiff’s car in the parking lot of an elementary school. At the time, the plaintiff’s vehicle was stationary and the child…

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Medical Device Manufacturer Allegedly Violates FDA Regulations

This case involves numerous plaintiffs who suffered complications related to a birth control medical device. The plaintiffs suffered perforation of the uterus and other organs, migration of the device throughout the body, as well as immune reactions to the device…

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Physician Fails To Administer Prescription Medication To Alcoholic Patient

This case involves a 58-year-old female patient with a history of heart problems and alcoholism. The patient had developed alcoholism in her early fifties following the death of her son. One evening, the patient drank to the point of falling unconscious. She…

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Delayed Discovery Of Brain Aneurysm Results In Neurological Damage

This case involves a middle-aged male patient with a history of elevated blood pressure who presented to urgent care with high blood pressure, headache and nausea. The patient was discharged with no diagnosis and was given prescriptions for pain relievers…

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Poor Patient Monitoring Results In Fatal Prescription Drug Interaction

This case involves the treatment of a 66-year-old female for injuries she sustained from a fall in her home. The woman fell down ten stairs and suffered chronic back pain as a result of the incident. Because the woman was…

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