How many times have you been watching a trial and heard a judge say “Objection overruled”? When you watch a movie and observe a scene from a trial and see one lawyer jump up and yell “Objection!” Why does the judge sometimes say “Objection overruled?” Watch the video to learn what objection overruled means is and what could happen if a lawyer fails to yell “Objection” at the right time.

A woman went to have a uni-compartmental knee replacement, and immediately upon waking from surgery was in extreme pain in the back of her knee. Despite the orthopedist’s reassurances that everything was fine, and that physical therapy would solve her problem, the pain continued for the next four months.

Follow-up x-rays revealed that the original hardware was not put in the correct position during the original surgery. As a result, this patient had to undergo corrective surgery to remove all of the hardware and then put in a total knee replacement to fix the problem.

The tragedy was that this was totally preventable if an x-ray had been taken during surgery. Watch the video to learn more.

Listen in as Gerry Oginski, an experienced New York medical malpractice trial lawyer explains what happened when a woman’s complaints of nerve injury went undiagnosed leading to significant neurological injury.

A woman had spinal surgery and a few days later developed tingling, numbness and pain in her hands, legs and toes. Calls to the doctor’s office told the patient to stay at home until a hospital bed was available. When the woman’s condition worsened, she arrived at the hospital admitting office, as instructed, and waited 5 hours before being seen by a doctor. Then the doctor took a CAT scan- which was the wrong test to evaluate her condition. The correct imaging test was done a day later, further delaying the correct diagnosis and treatment. When the correct diagnosis was actually made, the neurosurgeon delayed another 8-10 hours before taking the patient to the operating room.

Listen in as Gerry Oginski, an experienced New York medical malpractice and wrongful death trial lawyer practicing law in Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Long Island, Staten Island, Nassau & Suffolk describes what happened to a man who had laparoscopic gallbladder surgery that was botched.

Find out how the surgeon failed to recognize that he clamped and cut off the common bile duct leaving nowhere for the bile to go. Had he recognized the mistake during the initial surgery, learn what he could have done to prevent this patient from having major abdominal surgery. Watch the video to learn more.