A Bluffs woman has filed suit against a Jacksonville doctor she contends was negligent in a 2013 surgery.
Stacey Goetze of Bluffs is suing Dr. John Daily and the Passavant Physician Association. She is seeking $50,000 and court costs after Daily reportedly removed both inferior turbinates during a surgery for a nasal septoplasty — a surgery to straighten a deviated or crooked nasal septum.
According to the suit, after the removal of the turbinates, Goetze began experiencing pain in her nose and sinus area, as well as headaches. After returning, she was diagnosed with empty nose syndrome and had a corrective surgery March 20, 2013, to reconstructed partial turbinates.
The lawsuit contends Daily breached the standard care by removing the complete turbinates and caused her to pain and suffering, as well as lose of income. It presents only one side of a case.
“As a direct and proximate result of (Daily’s) negligence as herein described, (Goetze) continued with worsening symptoms … necessitating a second surgery in order to try to alleviate ongoing and worsening symptoms, undergoing additional pain and suffering, and a loss of earnings and damaged from the loss of a normal life … ” according to the lawsuit.