A 6-year-old was left with permanent scars following a laser procedure, which was meant to get rid of a birthmark. The scars are circular open wounds that appear on the left side of her face from her face around her nose to her ear.
Consequently, the girl’s family is suing the University of Minnesota Physicians for allegedly inflicting the wounds on the girl.
The girl’s mother, Kasey Bernu of Minnesota, told the Star Tribune that she wants “accountability”. She wants Hook to take responsibility for disfiguring the girl’s face back in 2017 during a laser procedure.
According to the girl’s mother, the girl’s family is filing a lawsuit because they do not want to see the same thing happen to another child. Additionally, the girl’s mother says that she does not want to see another family suffer the way they have suffered with her daughter.
Hook and the University of Minnesota Physicians were named as defendants in the family’s lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court.
The family’s representative, attorney Jeff Storms, stated that Mrs. Bernu’s daughter still has visible scars two years after the alleged medical malpractice at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.
According to a statement given to New York Post, Jeff Storms said, “The girl still has very serious pocking and deep scarring on her face. And they’re going to be permanent.”
According to the family’s attorney …
According to the family’s attorney, the girl will have to wait before she can receive treatments to minimize or get rid of the scarring. The attorney went further to state that the girl, who is a resident of Minnesota’s Crow Wing County, is seven or eight years old.
According to the lawsuit, the girl was born with a “port-wine stain”, which is a reddish birthmark. James Storms further stated that the girl’s family began treating the girl shortly after she was born back in the year 2011. According to Attorney James Storms, the girl was treated using a pulsed dye laser, which is certainly not the one that had been used to treat her in 2017. Additionally, storms stated that the Nd: YAG laser was recommended after 25 treatments, which had been done using the pulsed dye laser.
The lawsuit claims that Hook, who is pediatric dermatologist, did not disclose her inexperience as far as using such an “extremely powerful” laser was concerned.
Additionally, the lawsuit states that Hook offered the girl’s family “improper wound care” over the phone following her injuries in 2017. According to the lawsuit, Hook did not refer them for proper treatment.
On the other hand, University of Minnesota Physicians declined to comment stating that they never comment on pending litigations or matters touching on a patient’s privacy.
Hook could not be reached for comment. However, attorney Ryan Ellis, who was speaking on behalf of the family stated that, “We sympathize with this patient and her family”.
Through the lawsuit, the family wants to be compensated for damages. It wants $50,000 for various damages including emotional distress, suffering, pain, as well as loss of future earnings.
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