Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Patient left in dark after ‘odyssey’-Suit outlines nightmare surgery at Beth Israel

A major Boston hospital that touts its commitment to “disclosure and honesty” faces legal action from an anguished veteran who says he was left in the dark for weeks after a simple cosmetic procedure spun into an “odyssey” of pain and suffering.

“I am furious that nobody at Beth Israel Deaconess cared enough to tell me what happened,” said Michael K. Hicks, 39, of Quincy. He has filed a civil suit accusing the renowned medical center of not owning up to its errors in the hours and days after his elective June 27 liposuction.

Prominent plastic surgeon Dr. Loren J. Borud, 44, was fired several weeks after the surgery, on July 18. Beth Israel first reached out to Hicks, who suffered bleeding, pain and emotional turmoil, after the Boston Herald began inquiring about Borud’s past on July 16.

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