A's part ways with medical staff - and Braden sues them!

Who can get by on just 16 ounces these days?

Yeah, she probably squeezed the cup a little too hard, but who TF expects 3rd degree burns from fast food coffee?

The final judgment was $160K compensatory and $480K punitive. (After the judgment, the parties settled rather than going to appeal. The terms of the settlement were not made public, but presumably they weren’t too far from the judgment.)

by the coroner..“again??!!”

“..those guys are such a drag!”

I certainly am not, but the minimal stuff I know, it looks funny to me.

so he didn’t give informed consent – or even consent.

when a doctor is going to perform even minor surgery the patient is required to sign a document acknowledging the potential risks. From what Braden alleges this did not happen

Braden is alleging that the minor surgery was performed witihout his informed consent. this is information that was not published in any article or blog before the suit.

Did you feel that?

“If the harm was so great, how were you able to do something virtually nobody has done?”

because of how he describes his physical problems stemming from the actions of the doctor. It would make sense, however, if it was already known.

that looks 40?

"Dammit, Dallas, you’ve ruined my reutatio!!!!"
"Um, sorry doc, I’ll get you a new one."
"I want a red one!"
"OK."

and google said, “Do you mean ‘refutatio’?” To which I replied, “Oh most definitely.”

They meant to name themselves after the number but misspelled it. Then decided to keep the misspelling.

We don’t know if the team was planning on leaving them anyways or this is them sticking up for Braden.

I am interested in what that expectation is and how they got to that number. It seems to me that any number is more highly speculative than courts can grant.

As nvermoor suggests the lack of number in the pleadings may be SOP, but I would hipe his lawyer has some idea of where they are going and how they get there. My gut tells me its not going to be easy.

it has a specific meaning (reckless disregard for safety of others) and is not likely the case here.

negligence, maybe, what is the standard of care for the doctor. it seems to the untrained observer that you shouldn’t sever nerves, but the doctor might be able to say that tis particular cyst was in a place where it the nerves were at risk.

the damages might be less than what people here think. Dallas braden has not lost any earnings yet because of the injury. I think he is arb eligible this year, we’ll see what he gets, but since his best year was after the injury, he has a difficult task showing future harm

but generally:

Punitive damages are for malicious or grossly negligent, which isn’t the case here. So not likely.

pain and suffering, I don’t know how that works, but its kinda smoke an mirrors

We have no idea what really happened. Either it’s the way Braden says or it isn’t.

the only way that it could be misconstrued (biopsy vs. cyst removal) is if it didn’t happen the way Braden alleges. if the doctor can produce a consent waiver form signed by Braden perhaps the wording might give him some room to argue (although his severing of the nerve is more than just a simple “risk of surgery”).

It’s important to remember that while taking material from the cyst with a needle for a biopsy is not considered surgery, removal of the cyst is. Braden claims the cyst was removed without his consent.

it looks like the plate/batters boxes on the graphic are not. For whatever reason, they draw the edges of the batters boxes about half the distance to the edges of the plate as they should be. That’s really misleading.

it apears to be 6 inches outside

Obviously, set up isn’t the problem. Wherever they do, there’ll some part of the zone they will misjudge.

Just saying setting up over the right shoulder makes for dismal calls around the outside corner.

for example, if the person is unconscious. That totally doesn’t apply in this case.

Braden claims the doctor said he was going to extract material from the cyst for a biopsy. Instead the doctor cut out the cyst. Braden claims he did not give his consent for what the doctor actually did, only for what he told him he was going to do. Then to further aggravate the situation the doctor severed a nerve which Braden has been told has caused permanent damage.

Can this doctor produce a waiver form signed by Braden that might cover him?

because then there wouldn’t be a designated family member.

But I’d think exploratory surgery is just what it sounds like and depending on what they find, that’s when they’ll sit back down to decide how to proceed further next time.