One of Tucson’s largest hospitals is facing a large penalty for a medical mistake. There is a multi million dollar judgment against Banner University Medical Center.
At Banner University Medical Center, a lot of surgeries may go just fine but a jury agreed one woman’s surgery did not. And that’s why she’s in line to collect four million dollars.
“It’s terrifying, you know, to hear someone say you have foreign objects in your body. It’s really terrifying,” says Amanda Hoover.
Hoover went to Banner University Medical Center to have a baby. Her doctors decided to do a C-Section.
“I had a little bit of pain afterward and I went to a couple of follow ups. And they had told me that the pain I was feeling was normal to the C section and organs being moved around. So I took their advice and tried to live my life.”
But she says after 14 months of pain, the pain was so bad she went to a different hospital’s emergency department.
A CT scan showed doctors left a sponge inside her body during the C-Section. It had worked its way through the wall of her colon.