Recent work highlights

• Claiming for a woman who suffered a ureteric injury during laparoscopic gynaecological surgery - and a delay in diagnosis - resulting in her requiring emergency readmission to hospital for further surgical treatment.
• Achieving damages for the widow of a man who died as a result of a negligent delay of four years in diagnosing kidney cancer.
• Winning damages for a woman who suffered a pseudo-obstruction following a caesarean section delivery which resulted in permanent injury and an impairment to her natural ability to conceive without medical assistance.
• Successfully pursuing a claim for a woman who suffered a ureteric injury during an unnecessary hysterectomy that resulted in the loss of kidney function.
• Claiming for the widower of a woman who died from a myocardial infarction which could have been avoided if the out of hours GP had referred for her cardiac symptoms.

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