John F. McCormick Law Blog

Gall bladder removal (“cholecystectomy”)  is one of the more common surgeries in the U.S. One estimate places the number of these procedures in excess of 750,000 annually in the United States.  Unfortunately, laparoscopic cholecystectomies  (LC’s) do not always go as planned.  The most common mistake is that the surgeon clips or cuts the patient’s common bile duct instead of the cystic duct (an injury caused by a physician is an “iatroge... Read More