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Georgia Bowel Obstruction and Abdominal Emergency Allegations

Bowel-obstruction and abdominal-emergency allegations often concern whether abdominal pain, imaging findings, obstruction, leak, torsion, or surgical signs were treated urgently enough.

8 8 case summaries from public case filings.

Malpractice type page Georgia medical-malpractice summaries grouped for easier comparison.

Allegations Summaries are drawn from public filings and are not findings of liability.

Overview

The examples below involve public Georgia complaint allegations about bowel obstruction, internal hernia, bowel leak, appendicitis, abdominal evisceration, ovarian torsion, or other abdominal emergencies. Some examples overlap with surgical-complication or emergency-discharge pages, but each included case has an abdominal emergency at the center of the alleged pattern.

Notice

This page only summarizes allegations from a complaint or source case summary. Allegations are not proof. Defendants are presumed not liable unless and until a court rules otherwise.

How to read these summaries

Each card is a short allegation summary. The linked case summary gives the fuller source-grounded description of the public filing.

The grouping is meant to help readers compare recurring care settings, medical issues, alleged failures, and claimed injuries without treating the allegations as proven facts.

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Georgia Surgicare complaint alleges unauthorized gastric bypass during scheduled hernia repair

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Georgia Surgicare, IBI Healthcare, and Christopher Ibikunle, M.D. performed a gastric bypass with Roux-en-Y anastomosis during a scheduled hernia repair and sleeve revision even though the plaintiff allegedly had not consented to conversion to gastric bypass.

Provider grouping: IBI Healthcare
Care setting: Georgia Surgicare, LLC
Providers involved: Georgia Surgicare, LLC / IBI Healthcare / Christopher Ibikunle, M.D. / Georgia Surgicare staff
Alleged pattern: Scheduled hernia repair and sleeve revision followed by alleged conversion to gastric bypass without consent
Claimed harm: Small bowel obstruction, emergency surgery, aspiration pneumonia, sepsis, and additional abdominal procedures

IBI HealthcareUnauthorized procedureBariatric surgery Read the case summary

CHOA complaint alleges child discharged despite worsening bowel-obstruction symptoms

This page concerns a pediatric emergency case at CHOA in which a physician recognized a substantial stool obstruction, unsuccessful bedside treatment did not relieve it, the child nevertheless was discharged despite worsening signs, and she returned in critical condition before dying after emergency surgery.

Provider grouping: Children’s Hospital of Atlanta
Care setting: CHOA emergency department
Providers involved: CHOA emergency department / Dr. Michael Greenwald / Nurse Gabriel Ribeiro
Alleged pattern: Substantial bowel obstruction followed by discharge home despite worsening symptoms and failed bedside treatment
Claimed harm: Wrongful death

Children’s Hospital of AtlantaBowel obstructionPediatric emergency medicine Read the case summary

St. Francis complaint alleges post-operative bowel leak and sepsis after colon surgery

This page concerns a St. Francis surgical case in which an initial rectal lesion had been completely excised with clear margins, but a later major colon surgery allegedly was unnecessary and was followed by an anastomotic leak, fecal peritonitis, delayed source control, lack of immediate postoperative antibiotics, and fatal s...

Provider grouping: St. Francis Health
Care setting: St. Francis Health
Providers involved: St. Francis Health, LLC / Dr. William Taylor / Intensivists
Alleged pattern: Unnecessary colon surgery followed by delayed diagnosis and treatment of an anastomotic leak
Claimed harm: multi-organ failure and death

St. Francis HealthPost-operative sepsisGeneral surgery Read the case summary

Closed-loop bowel obstruction allegedly not treated as a surgical emergency at Emory

This page concerns a suspected closed-loop bowel obstruction at Emory, where the complaint alleges that a surgical emergency was left untreated overnight, the oncoming surgeon also did not promptly attend to the patient the next morning, and broader administrative failures contributed to the delay that cost the patient 40% of...

Provider grouping: Emory Healthcare
Care setting: Emory Healthcare
Providers involved: Emory Healthcare, Inc. / Dr. Cheickna Diarra / Dr. Darryl Tookes
Alleged pattern: Suspected closed-loop bowel obstruction followed by overnight delay, morning delay, and loss of 40% of the small intestine
Claimed harm: Forty percent loss of small intestine

Emory HealthcareBowel obstructionEmergency medicine Read the case summary

Wellstar complaint alleges bile leak and sepsis-treatment delay after gallbladder surgery

This page concerns a cholecystectomy at Wellstar that allegedly was unnecessary and performed without informed consent, followed by bile-leak and sepsis complications that multiple providers did not timely investigate or treat, along with asserted communication and coordination failures at the system level.

Provider grouping: Wellstar Health System
Care setting: Wellstar Health System
Providers involved: Wellstar Health System, Inc. / Dr. Grant Taylor / Multiple healthcare providers / Corporate defendants
Alleged pattern: Unnecessary cholecystectomy without informed consent followed by delayed investigation and treatment of severe complications
Claimed harm: Sepsis and chronic abdominal pain

Wellstar Health SystemInformed consent failureGeneral surgery Read the case summary

Grady Memorial complaint alleges trauma-care delay after abdominal evisceration

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Grady Memorial Hospital providers delayed emergency trauma care for a patient with abdominal evisceration after a motor-vehicle collision.

Provider grouping: Grady Health System
Care setting: Grady Memorial Hospital
Providers involved: Grady Health System / Grady Memorial Hospital / David Bower / Yhaneek Douglas-Mattis / Jacob Goergen / Alison Kelley / Elizabeth Lewinger / Troy Marxen / Jonathan Nguyen / Nicole Petcka / Nicholas Rowe / Victoria Wagner / David Wright
Alleged pattern: Alleged delay in treating abdominal evisceration and alleged discharge attempt after motor-vehicle collision
Claimed harm: catastrophic internal injuries, multiple emergency surgeries, extended hospitalization, and permanent physical impairment

Grady Health SystemDelayed treatmentEmergency medicine Read the case summary

Morehouse Healthcare complaint alleges refusal to treat before appendicitis surgery

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that Morehouse Healthcare and a family-medicine physician refused to evaluate a patient with acute abdominal pain before she later required emergency appendicitis surgery.

Provider grouping: Morehouse Healthcare
Care setting: Morehouse Comprehensive Healthcare Center
Providers involved: Morehouse Healthcare, Inc. / Morehouse Comprehensive Healthcare Center / Folashade Omole, M.D. / Piedmont Hospital
Alleged pattern: Alleged refusal to evaluate acute abdominal pain because of an unpaid co-payment
Claimed harm: acute appendicitis, emergency laparoscopic appendectomy, pain, and emotional distress

Morehouse HealthcareRefusal of careFamily medicine Read the case summary

Piedmont Henry complaint alleges ovarian-torsion delay before ovary loss and fetal death

This page concerns a public complaint alleging that providers failed to diagnose and treat ovarian torsion in a pregnant patient with severe abdominal pain and known adnexal cysts.

Provider grouping: Piedmont Henry Hospital
Care setting: Piedmont Henry Hospital
Providers involved: Piedmont Henry Hospital, Inc. / Every Woman’s OB-GYN, LLC / Temitope Fapohunda, M.D. / Preyasi Kothari, M.D. / Reagan Burge, CNM / Kelli Kilpatrick, RN / Northside Hospital
Alleged pattern: Alleged failure to investigate severe abdominal pain in pregnancy despite known adnexal cysts
Claimed harm: ovarian torsion, loss of the right ovary, and fetal death at 21 weeks

Piedmont Henry HospitalFailure to diagnoseObstetrics Read the case summary

Related healthcare providers

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta 1 case summary Emory Healthcare 1 case summary Grady 1 case summary Piedmont 1 case summary Wellstar 1 case summary

Related Georgia opinions

Related Georgia Opinions

Supreme Court of Georgia: the medical malpractice damages cap cannot touch a verdict that also includes pain-and-suffering damages a jury was entitled to award. Reaffirming Nestlehutt under stare decisis, the Supreme Court held that OCGA § 51-13-1's $350,000 noneconomic damages cap cannot be applied at all to a verdict that includes constitutionally protected noneconomic damages — here, the estate's pre-death pain and suffering. Because the statute lumps every claimant's noneconomic damages into one capped sum and offers no way to carve a verdict apart, the Court vacated an order that had cut a $29,250,000 wrongful death award to $350,000. It expressly reserved whether the cap could reach a stand-alone wrongful death award.