$638,000 jury verdict against a surgeon for injuring the common bile duct during a gallbladder removal surgery resulting in a repair surgery and 8-day hospitalization. Harold Gene Miller v. Dr. Curtis Green and Sarah Bush Lincoln. During a laporascopic gallbladder removal surgery, Dr. Green improperly injured Gene’s common bile duct but failed to inform the patient of the injury. Over the next three months, Gene continued to get sicker and sicker; however, Dr. Green never told Gene about the injury to his bile duct and told him that everything was due to a normal course of healing. Eventually, Gene went to Barnes-Jewish Hospital where the injury to the bile duct was diagnosed requiring a repair surgery and 8-day hospitalization. A $5,000 offer to settle the case was made weeks prior to trial.
