Jury Awards $4 Million to Woman After a Botched Surgery Left Her With an Internal Injury

A Superior Court jury awarded a Little Compton woman $4 million after finding a surgeon negligent by misidentifying anatomy during a 2017 procedure at Women & Infants Hospital that left her with significant scarring and at risk of future injury to her kidney, according to lawyers involved in the case.

An eight-member jury deliberated for one and a half hours before delivering a unanimous verdict May 24 to Tammy Sisson against the hospital and Dr. Alfredo Gil, said Sisson’s lawyer, Michael P. Quinn Jr., of Decof, Barry, Mega & Quinn. The judgment will ultimately amount to approximately $5.83 million.

On Oct. 23, 2017, Sisson, then 55, underwent a total laparoscopic hysterectomy at Women & Infants Hospital during which she sustained a severe injury to her right side ureter, the tubelike organ that carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder. The injury went undiscovered for five days, Quinn said.

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