A Texas woman recently filed a lawsuit claiming her doctor mistakenly operated on the wrong foot, then tried to cover up the mistake.
Mary “Linda” Almanza underwent surgery in December 2021 to correct bone spurs in both feet at Houston Methodist West Hospital on the Katy Freeway.
“When I woke up, I was livid. I was so upset and all I could say was, ‘they did the wrong foot,'” Almanza told KTRK.
Almanza claims that she and the doctor agreed to operate on her left foot first because it was worse, but instead, the doctor operated on her right foot, and nobody caught the mistake.
Almanza’s husband later informed her that the doctor compelled him to initial a consent form after the surgery, which she claims the doctor altered from their agreed-upon foot to the foot that was operated on.
“We want to make sure they have the procedures in place so something like this doesn’t happen to us or anyone else we care about,” said Almanza’s attorney, Lance Walters. “She was supposed to get her foot repaired, but now she has two bum feet.”
