What was supposed to be routine surgery became a little too routine for 43-year-old William McCormack, who is suing Lawrence Hospital Center, claiming that he had to have an appendectomy in the Adirondacks last month — a year after he supposedly had the same operation at the Bronxville medical facility. 
 
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 It's a gut-wrenching tale of surgical déjà vu. 
 
 What was supposed to be routine surgery became a little too routine for 43-year-old William McCormack, who is suing Lawrence Hospital Center, claiming that he had to have an appendectomy in the Adirondacks last month — a year after he supposedly had the same operation at the Bronxville medical facility. 
 
 McCormack, a Bronxville resident, is seeking unspecified damages from Lawrence Hospital and Dr. Michael Kerin, the Tuckahoe surgeon who said he removed McCormack's appendix on Jan. 27, 2013. 
 
 According to a lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court, McCormack says that he experienced severe stomach pains during a visit to Lake Placid in early March. He went to Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake and underwent an emergency operation. 
 
 During the second operation, "it was discovered that (McCormack's) appendix was never removed and was still inside him," court papers say. 
 
 Kerin, who runs Michael Kerin MD, General Surgery & Med Spa in Tuckahoe, did not return calls seeking comment. His website lists Kerin as former director of surgery at Lawrence Hospital. 
 
 The hospital told The Journal News in an email that it was investigating McCormack's claim and does not comment on pending litigation. 
 
 Mitchell J. Baker, the White Plains lawyer representing McCormack, had no comment, saying only that the lawsuit "speaks for itself." 
 
 Included in the lawsuit is a copy of a Jan. 27, 2013 Operative Report from Lawrence Hospital stating that McCormack's appendix had been removed. The report was electronically signed by Kerin. 
 
 The suit says that after the Bronxville surgery, Kerin told McCormack "that his appendix was removed, and all was otherwise satisfactory." 
 
 A report from Lawrence Hospital's Pathology Department, however, says that while the department received a specimen bearing McCormack's name and marked "appendix," the final pathologic diagnosis states that "there is no evidence of appendix." 
 
 "Lawrence Hospital never notified Mr. McCormack that there was no evidence of an appendix in the specimen... despite its knowledge that the specimen marked 'appendix' was not an appendix and/or that something had gone amiss in the operation conducted by Dr. Kerin," the lawsuit says. 
 
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 BRONXVILLE - A Bronxville man is suing Lawrence Hospital because he had to have surgery twice to get his appendix removed. 
 
 Investment banker William McCormack took an emergency trip to Lawrence Hospital back in 2013, when doctors diagnosed his extreme stomach pain as acute appendicitis. The now 43-year-old underwent surgery and was told his appendix was removed. 
 
 About a year after his surgery, McCormack was in upstate New York when he started to feel those same stomach pains. When doctors examined him, they discovered that he still had his appendix. 
 
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 McCormack is suing the hospital and the surgeon who claims he performed the appendectomy. The lawsuit claims what was actually removed from McCormack was a "yellowish mass," not his appendix. 
 
 His attorney says documents show the hospital and the doctor, Michael Kerin, realized the mistake and carelessly ignored it. McCormack is asking to be compensated not just for the pain and suffering, but also for having to go under the knife twice. 
 
 Attorney Mitchell Baker says the hospital and surgeon may have been faced with more than medical malpractice had McCormack’s appendix not been removed upstate. 
 
 Calls for comment have not been returned by Lawrence Hospital. ||||| A pregnant woman suffering from appendicitis died on the operating table weeks after a surgeon mistakenly removed her ovary instead of her appendix, medical watchdogs heard on Monday. 
 
 Mother-of-three Maria De Jesus, 32, was 20 weeks pregnant with her fourth child when she was admitted to Queen's Hospital in Romford, Essex, a Fitness to Practise Panel of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) heard. 
 
 The "complicated" operation was carried out at the weekend by a junior surgeon who removed her ovary in error, while the more senior consultant had gone home. 
 
 Less than three weeks later she was readmitted again suffering abdominal pains and the mistake was discovered. 
 
 But two days after that De Jesus, from Dagenham, miscarried her baby boy and died on the operating table after having the appendix removed. 
 
 Dr Yahya Al Abed has admitted removing De Jesus' right ovary in error at the panel hearing sitting in Manchester. He denies misconduct. 
 
 Peter Horgan, lawyer for the MPTS told the panel the patient, referred to as Patient A, was first admitted suffering abdominal pains on October 21, 2011, to Queen's Hospital run by Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospital NHS Trust. 
 
 She was seen by a surgical registrar, Dr Christopher Liao and the consultant general and surgical lead Dr Babatunde Coker and an appendectomy was recommended. 
 
 De Jesus was put on the emergency surgery list but waited to give consent for the operation before speaking to her husband. 
 
 Dr Coker went to the coffee room while waiting for De Jesus to give consent, the panel heard. 
 
 But having heard nothing back, he went home after agreeing Dr Al Abed would carry out the procedure. 
 
 Dr Al Abed was told Dr Coker would "be around" and available if they needed him, the hearing was told. 
 
 Dr Al Abed had been working at the hospital just under three weeks and failed to inform more senior colleagues he only had limited experience of carrying out such operations on pregnant women. 
 
 He has also admitted failing to ensure he was supervised during the procedure or calling for the duty consultant when the operation started to go wrong. 
 
 During the operation the patient began to bleed heavily. 
 
 Horgan told the panel: "In the midst of this Mr Al Abed removed what he clearly believed to be the appendix. He clearly thought he had found it, removed it and gave it to a nurse. 
 
 "In fact this turned out to be Patient A's right ovary." 
 
 He said Dr Liao advised Dr Al Abed to get Dr Coker to help and, though he agreed, did not instruct anyone to get him - having assumed somebody else was trying to contact the senior surgeon. 
 
 De Jesus was discharged from the hospital eight days later on October 31, 2011 then re-admitted on November 7, again suffering abdominal pain. 
 
 Two days later, on November 9, it was discovered by another doctor that her ovary rather than appendix had been removed. On November 11, she gave birth to a stillborn baby boy and had her appendix removed. 
 
 Horgan added: "Sadly Patient A died whilst on the operating table later that morning." 
 
 A post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as multiple organ failure due to septicaemia. 
 
 Horgan said Dr Al Abed acted "outside the limits of his competency" and failed to call on Dr Coker when problems began. 
 
 Dr Coker has admitted failing to carry out the surgery himself or at least being present to supervise more junior colleagues. He denies misconduct. 
 
 The hearing, expected to last up to a month, continues on Tuesday.
– When William McCormack went into a medical center in the Adirondacks last month with severe stomach pains, he ended up getting an emergency appendectomy ... which came as quite a surprise to him, considering he thought he'd already had his appendix removed in Bronxville, New York, last year. The 43-year-old is now suing Lawrence Hospital and Dr. Michael Kerin, the surgeon who claimed to have removed McCormack's appendix in January 2013, the Journal News reports. McCormack was on vacation near Lake Placid in early March when he had to undergo emergency surgery, during which surgeons "discovered that (McCormack's) appendix was never removed and was still inside him," according to his lawsuit. Also included in the suit: a copy of the post-op report from Lawrence Hospital, which is signed by Kerin and claims McCormack's appendix had indeed been removed. It's not clear how exactly the hospital failed to alert McCormack he was still in possession of the body part, as a report from the pathology department states, "there is no evidence of appendix" in the specimen marked "appendix." So what was removed from McCormack's body? A "yellowish mass," according to News 12.