The American Accountability Foundation is calling out President Biden's NIH director nominee Dr. Monica Bertagnolli over several serious medical malpractice lawsuits filed against her.
has unearthed a striking four medical malpractice cases that have been filed against Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, who is President Biden's nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health . say that the cases uncovered are not nuisance lawsuits and, viewed together, raise"serious questions about her medical abilities, supervisory skills, and temperament."
Monica M. Bertagnolli, director of the National Cancer Institute, is photographed in her office at NIH on December 13, 2022 in Bethesda, Md.In 1999, Bertagnolli was sued for malpractice inA jury ultimately found her liable and ordered her to pay $450,000 in damages for pain and suffering caused to the plaintiff.
The issue was that Bertagnolli repaired Falcon's hernia using sutures instead of mesh. Falcon alleged her hernia should have been repaired using a mesh, and expert witness testimony supported Falcon's claim that using sutures was a gross deviation from standard medical practice. Summarizing the case on Dec. 17, 2001, Falcon's attorney Linda Roth called Bertagnolli"an arrogant surgeon" whose"selfish existence" made her unable"to admit what [she] did was wrong." The jury unanimously decided that Bertagnolli departed from the"good and accepted standards of medical care and practice" before awarding Falcon $450,000 in damages. in Massachusetts, Estate of Jazmine Sneed et. Al v.
Dr. Monica Bertagnolli was previously the Chief of Surgical Oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
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