Tennessee Medical Malpractice Legal Questions

This is not an easy question to answer so I will cite you to  Smith v. Gore, 728 S.W.2d 738, a 1987 Tennessee Supreme Court case. Therein, a patient brought action for wrongful pregnancy against physicians who had performed failed tubal ligation, university hospital and manufacturer of sterilization technique, seeking damages for emotional distress, loss of income, expenses of rearing child to majority and punitive damages.  The Supreme Court  held that: (1) common law and statutory law placing responsibility for support of minor child on parents precluded recovery of otherwise foreseeable expenses of rearing normal, healthy child from defendants; (2) damages for medical expenses, pain and suffering, and loss of wages during pregnancy, delivery, and some period of postnatal recovery were recoverable upon proper showing; and (3) damages for emotional distress or mental anguish were recoverable for period extending from discovery of pregnancy until termination, upon proper showing.    ... Read Answer

The question that you pose is to complicated to answer on this forum. You are going to have to find an attorney who will speak with you in person. Having paperwork is not enouight. You will have to have another doctor testify that the doctor who installed the mesh violated the standard of care.... Read Answer

In order to have a medical malpractice action against the doctor, you have to find another doctor who is willing to testify that there were to many steroids prescribed, that dosage should not have been prescribed and that this is what caused the damage to your eye. You MUST have this expert or you have no case.... Read Answer