A renowned magician, whose doctor´s overlooked a severed tendon in his hand which threatened to end his career, has been awarded 15,000 pounds in an out-of-court settlement of his missed hand injury compensation claim.
Kyle Summers (40) from Burbage, Wiltshire, had attended hospital in Nuneaton after a cup he had been cleaning shattered in his hand. Medical staff at the hospital took an x-ray of Kyle´s left hand to ensure that there was no china lodged in his thumb and then stitched the wound up and sent Kyle home.
After Kyle started to experience difficulty performing his magic tricks, he decided to have the hand looked at by his GP, but because the notes made at the hospital indicated that there was no damage to the tendon – even though the laceration on Kyle´s thumb had been deep enough to reach the bone – the GP and a physiotherapist decided that the tendon had swollen.
It was after a further check-up six weeks later that the actual cause of the problem was identified. Kyle had to undergo two operations to insert a rod in his wrist and attach a thicker tendon before the injury started to heal. Only after months of intense specialist physiotherapy did Kyle gain the dexterity in his hand to allow him to return to work.
After seeking legal counsel, Kyle sued the George Eliot NHS Trust for missed hand injury compensation and, in an out-of-court settlement, received 15,000 pounds for the missed diagnosis of his severed tendon.
