Patient claims blindness due to alleged misdiagnosis - The Louisiana Record

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Patient claims blindness due to alleged misdiagnosis
The Louisiana Record
167482128-doctor-stethoscope-628x363 GRETNA – A patient is suing her optometrist and his clinic over an alleged misdiagnosis that she claims later caused one eye to be blinded. Wanda Johnson filed suit against Optical One LLC and Dr. Daniel T. Khong ...


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[AdminWolf]

Not knowing the details of this case, one thing I find interesting is that the patient is suing the OD, not the MD who performed the surgery. (I thought the usual sequence was "sue 'em all and let the jury sort it out"?)

 

[Jeff Berger OD]

Yeah, that's confusing to me as well. She underwent surgery and as a result went blind. But it's the OD that caused the blindness? Apparently she didn't go blind between May and December 2nd, but did immediately after the surgery on December 9th. Would be enlightening to have more details.

 

[Michael Ford]

Yeah, that's confusing to me as well. She underwent surgery and as a result went blind. But it's the OD that caused the blindness? Apparently she didn't go blind between May and December 2nd, but did immediately after the surgery on December 9th. Would be enlightening to have more details.

Depends on what the actual condition was, the disease she actually had. This would be an interesting case study if we could get the information. Too bad this smears an OD name with out having any actual information to make an informed decision.

 

[AdminWolf]

Depends on what the actual condition was, the disease she actually had. This would be an interesting case study if we could get the information. Too bad this smears an OD name with out having any actual information to make an informed decision.

Yeah, i have a problem with the press publishing names in these types of suits, too.

ODwire is private, and we're all professionals here anyway, many (most?) will be dragged into a legal action sometime in their professional lives. So we know it comes with the territory. But the lay public may not be so understanding....

 

[Craig Steinberg OD JD]

Will they publish if the OD is found not culpable? Not likely....

 

[Troy Bedinghaus]

They are going after the OD because many times they have better coverage than MDs

 

[h.c. jang]

They are going after the OD because many times they have better coverage than MDs

Are you saying they didn't go after the MD because he had less coverage? That doesn't make sense.

 

[Russell Lee]

Maybe what happened was that the patient thinks the OD missed something and the OMD did the best that he/she could do under the circumstances. For example if an OD misses a large retinal detachment and much later the detachment was discovered by an OMD and the patient had retinal surgery with an OMD but the visual outcome was bad because it was not treated in a timely manner the patient may decide to sue the OD but not the MD.