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BELLEVILLE â A patient claims she suffered serious complications after laparoscopic surgery for GERD due to her physician s alleged negligence.
Veroncia Douglas filed a complaint May 12 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Kurt Sprunger, M.D., and Granite City Illinois Hospital Company LLC, doing business as Gateway Regional Medical Center, alleging medical Malpractice.
According to Douglas complaint, she underwent a laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication for GERD symptoms, which was performed by Sprunger on March 12, 2020. Douglas alleges that after the surgery, she suffered significant complications, including trouble swallowing, fever, nausea, shortness of breath and severe chest and abdominal pain. Douglas claims that on March 20, 2020, she was at Belleville Memorial Hospital for treatment of her complications. A CT scan allegedly showed that she had an intra-abdominal abscess and a build up of gas and fluid at her surgica
BELLEVILLE St. Elizabeth s Hospital is accused of failing to properly diagnose and treat a patient s brain hemorrhage, which allegedly caused her to be permanently disabled.
Tracy Perkins, as guardian of the person and Estate of Ralpha Perkins-Davis, a disabled person, filed a complaint Jan. 5 in the St. Clair County Circuit Court against Kevin Thompson, M.D., Huzefa Chinwala, M.D., and St. Elizabeth s Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of The Third Order of St. Francis, doing business as HSHS St. Elizabeth s Hospital, alleging medical malpractice.
According to the complaint, Ralpha Perkins-Davis went to St. Elizabeth s Hospital s urgent care on Sept. 22, 2019, allegedly suffering from a severe headache and pressure behind her eyes. She was discharged on the same day. The plaintiff alleges, two days later, Perkins-Davis was seen at St. Elizabeth s ER and was again sent home without any diagnostic testing being done on her head. The plaintiff claims that later that same day, P