By Phil Galewitz - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer - Sunday, December 24, 2006
Dr. Jacques Farkas thought he would be sued as soon as the surgical drill slipped from his hands and sliced the exposed nerves in his patient's lower back.
"This may be a lawsuit," Farkas told an operating room nurse during the 2001 procedure.
Two years later, Thelma McAloon did sue the neurosurgeon and JFK Medical Center in Atlantis. The mistake left the Boynton Beach woman with no control of her bladder or bowels, pain in her legs, numbness in her feet and no feeling in her vagina. Read more...
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