Woman wins massive settlement after bladder mistakenly removed during surgery for benign cyst

A Maine female has been awarded $17 cardinal aft a catastrophic surgical correction resulted successful nan removal of her bladder during a process intended to reside a benign ovarian cyst.

The damages were awarded to Emily Mitchell past Thursday by a Kennebec County assemblage pursuing a two-week medical malpractice trial against Northern Light Inland Hospital and Northern Light Health, according to her attorneys connected Friday. The verdict is reportedly nan largest aesculapian malpractice grant successful Kennebec County.

The devastating process occurred connected March 1, 2023, and resulted successful what Mitchell’s attorneys described arsenic an irreversible wounded pinch utmost wellness repercussions that are still ongoing.

"According to grounds presented astatine trial, what began arsenic a regular gynecologic room resulted successful 1 of nan astir devastating surgical errors imaginable," Berman & Simmons said successful a statement.

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Northern Light Inland Hospital successful Waterville closed successful May 2025. (Google Maps)

Northern Light Inland Hospital successful Waterville officially closed successful May 2025 aft serving nan organization for much than 80 years, according to nan state.

The healthcare strategy cited "immense unit of higher operational costs, unsustainably debased reimbursement rates, and a tight labour market" arsenic factors down nan closure successful a connection issued that month.

According to nan attorneys, Michell scheduled nan room aft imaging showed that a benign ovarian cyst had importantly accrued successful size.

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FILE - Emily Mitchell won a grounds aesculapian malpractice verdict aft a devastating surgical correction near her permanently limited connected ongoing treatment. (iStock)

Following nan procedure, Mitchell’s information worsened, and she was transferred to different infirmary for emergency surgery.

Surgeons later discovered that her bladder had been removed during nan original operation, and pathology confirmed nan insubstantial taken during nan process was "full-thickness bladder tissue," according to her attorneys.

The harm appeared irreversible, arsenic "surgeons wished location was insufficient patient bladder insubstantial remaining to reconstruct aliases repair nan organ," according to Berman & Simmons.

For nan adjacent 8 months, Mitchell relied connected bilateral nephrostomy tubes to drain urine straight from her kidneys. The curen involves bladed integrative tubes surgically placed done nan tegument of nan little backmost and into some kidneys, allowing urine to travel into outer bags attached to nan exposed ends of nan tubes.

During that time, Mitchell reportedly knowledgeable recurring urinary tract infections, kidney infections, aggregate aesculapian procedures and ongoing complications.

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FILE - A regular gynecologic process turned life-altering aft surgeons mistakenly removed a Maine woman's bladder, starring to a $17 cardinal assemblage award. (iStock)

She was yet referred to Massachusetts for analyzable reconstructive surgery, wherever surgeons utilized a information of her mini intestine to create a caller bladder, known arsenic a neobladder.

Mitchell’s attorneys said she "continues to unrecorded pinch nan imperishable effects of those injuries" astir 3 years aft nan original operation.

She must insert a catheter aggregate times a time to drain nan neobladder and requires ongoing aesculapian curen from specialists related to nan nonaccomplishment of her bladder.

After proceeding nan evidence, nan assemblage recovered Northern Light Inland Hospital and Northern Light Health liable and awarded Mitchell damages covering past and early aesculapian expenses, suffering, nonaccomplishment of enjoyment of life, affectional distress and imperishable impairment.

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"For our clients, this isn't conscionable a ineligible victory—it's nan closure they've needed for a agelong time," lawyer Susan A. Faunce said successful a statement.

"They tin yet statesman to move forward, knowing that what happened to them was seen, heard, and acknowledged. This verdict won't undo nan symptom our clients person endured, but it does connection thing they haven't had successful a agelong time: closure. They tin yet put this section down them."