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Belmont Resident Gets $280,000 Medical Malpractice Award
February 28, 2006
A Belmont woman living as a man was awarded $280,000 on Thursday by a jury that found two doctors negligent for leaving a surgical instrument in his abdomen following an operation.
Alex Mitchell, 38, said his pain and vomiting after the January 2001 operation were at first written off as gallstones and ovarian cysts.
However, an X-ray confirmed the presence of the foot-long surgical instrument called an Adept Med Fish.
The jury deliberated only briefly on Thursday before finding that Dr. Kathaleen Porter and Dr. Aqeel Siddiqui were negligent.
Because Dr. Siddiqui was only a third-year surgical resident at the time, the Suffolk Superior Court jury put the blame on Dr. Porter, the attending surgeon.