Goldie Claude, 86, of Waverly, is suing her doctors for malpractice after they removed a healthy kidney from her body during surgery instead of one with a cancerous tumor.
In a CT scan done in February, Dr. Kenneth Hawkins at the Horizon Medical Center in Dickson first correctly identified that the left kidney had the cancer. But later in his report, Hawkins wrote that the right kidney had the cancer. The error was not noticed during transcription or review of the report.
Claude is suing both Hawkins and Dr. Michael Spalding, the surgeon who removed her right kidney at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. Both hospitals and their parent company, HCA Inc., are named in the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages.
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