New York Suit Seeks $10M for Unnecessary Brain Surgery

A lawsuit says neurosurgeons operated twice on a New York woman for brain and spinal cord problems she didn’t have.

Kristy Pirozzolo is suing Long Island doctors Paolo Bolognese and Thomas Milhorat for $10 million.

Pirozzolo says she now has constant pain and has trouble moving her head.

An attorney for the doctors and hospital, Tony Sola, vowed to “defend this lawsuit on the science and the evidence and the truth.”

The doctors were suspended last month. Bolognese didn’t show up to operate on a patient who was already under anesthesia. Milhorat refused to cover for him.

Milhorat stepped down as North Shore University Hospital’s chief of neurosurgery. Bolognese was reinstated.

Information from: Daily News

Latest Comments

• May 22, 2009 at 6:35 am

  wudchuck says:

  ok, let's see...the pilot err, was because they should have pushed the nose down but pulled up and stalled the plane even further so it crashed... neither had been trained on ... read more
• May 22, 2009 at 12:54 pm

  Wow! says:

  that $$ can buy. Otherwise, she'd have been told it's all in her head and try to find a good shrink. North Shore's a real good hospital, this is a darned shame!! http://saltla... read more
• May 22, 2009 at 7:33 am

  Dread says:

  It's easy to follow the herd mentality and bash a doctor when something goes wrong. We need to remember a few things. Hundreds of thousands of successful surgeries are perfor... read more