A 4-year-old boy was admitted to Texas Children’s Hospital for hernia surgery, but the surgeon performed an entirely different procedure, performing a partial vasectomy. Now his parents are suing the hospital.
The little boy had gone to the hospital in August 2021, to undergo laparoscopic surgery, but somehow Dr. Susan Jarosz did the surgical procedure wrong and performed the vasectomy.
“We believe that the surgeon accidentally cut the vas deferens, one of the tubes that carries reproductive semen. It could affect this young man for the rest of his life, ”said Randy Sorrels, attorney for the family, for the
medio local Fox 4.
La Dra. Vegetarian You have no history of medical malpractice or formal complaints against you, Additionally, she is an assistant professor of pediatric urology at a Texas university.
“Here, the doctor was unable to pinpoint the anatomy that needed to be cut. Unfortunately, she cut the vas deferens. That was not known until he was sent to pathology, ”added the lawyer.
The parents ask for a million dollars for the damages to their son, since, according to the lawsuit, the doctor did not exercise the necessary care to perform the surgical procedure that the minor needed.
For her part, Dr. Jarosz was the one who notified the child’s parents of the error and apologized; however, they stated that what they are looking for is some “responsibility” for this mistake.
Likewise, the lawyer reported that his clients are concerned that this failed surgery will affect their child’s physical ability and their possibility of having children in the future. Meanwhile, the Texas Children’s Hospital published a statement in which it stated that it could not comment on this fact.
However, a vasectomy is a procedure that can be reversed with another surgery to reconnect the vas deferens that carry semen.