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National Post<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tom Blackwell<\/p>\n

As Helen Church woke up one morning just before Christmas 2012, the pain that had been building for weeks behind her right eye reached an excruciating climax.<\/p>\n

Screaming in agony, she ran around her east-end Toronto apartment before finally managing to call 911 and passing out.<\/p>\n

For the second time in short succession, she had fallen victim to health care gone badly awry.<\/p>\n

Just two years earlier, Ms. Church went to a nearby hospital to have an ovary removed as treatment for a painful cyst. She left hours later with the ovary still in place – and a piece of mesh embedded in her abdomen to repair a non-existent hernia.<\/p>\n

Then, months later, a specialist replaced an artificial, cataract-correcting lens that he said had started to wear. The result: That eye was now blind and growing increasingly painful.<\/p>\n

The ophthalmologist, another specialist told her later, had implanted the lens in the wrong position, obscuring her sight and puncturing a duct, causing a slow bleed and massive pressure.<\/p>\n

“There was so much blood in there, it blew the eyeball out of my head. It was hanging on my cheek,” said Ms. Church, a razor-sharp 83-year-old. “The blood was just dripping everywhere \u2026 I was hysterical, the pain was so bad.” . . . [Full Text<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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