It took less than an hour for a jury to decide an Alabama doctor was liable for a woman’s death after she experienced extreme pain following gallbladder surgery, according to her family’s attorneys. The jury awarded the family of Anne Davis, who was 71 when she died, $6 million on Sept. 17 following a six-day trial in Houston County, Hare Wynn law firm announced in a news release.
After Davis’ surgery in September 2017, she was discharged home and started feeling severe stomach pain, despite having taken pain medication prescribed by her surgeon who worked for Wiregrass Surgical in Dothan, according to the lawsuit filed over her death. When her husband, Billy Davis, called Wiregrass Surgical about his wife’s symptoms, he was told that the pain was expected, according to the lawsuit. But the pain persisted, the lawsuit says, and Billy Davis brought her to the surgical clinic, where she was seen by Dr.
Bradley T. Marker, her surgeon’s partner, on Sept. 22, 2017.
At the time, her surgeon was out of town, according to the lawsuit. Marker told the couple that Anne Davis’ stomach pain was “normal” and gave her a different prescription medicine to take, the lawsuit says. “He told dad it was fine to send my mom home, and then he pretty much dismissed him and sent him home,” Betsy Davis Swihart, Billy and Anne Davis’s daughter, told McClatchy News in an interview.
Her pain became worse at home and Billy Davis called EMS, according to the lawsuit, which says Anne .
