CHARLESTON – A former WOWK-TV sports anchor says a Charleston Area Medical Center physician failed to properly diagnose an injury resulting from gallbladder surgery, causing further injuries.
Anna Maria Tarullo filed her complaint in Kanawha Circuit Court against CAMC and Dr. Tiffany Lasky.
According to the complaint, Tarullo went to CAMC Women’s and Children Hospital in Charleston on August 28, 2020, with increased abdominal pain and nausea following a laparoscopic cholecystectomy earlier that day. Tarullo also was experiencing tachycardia and tachypnea, and an x-ray revealed “free intraperitoneal air felt to be postoperative in this patient recent cholecystectomy.”
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But, Tarullo claims Lasky and other CAMC resident physicians failed to timely diagnose and treat a bowel injury that occurred during the cholecystectomy. As a result of the delay, Tarullo says she experienced septic shock and sustained severe and permanent injuries.
She says CAMC and its employees, including Lasky, deviated from the accepted standard of care by failing to timely diagnose and treat her injured bowel.
Tarullo seeks economic and non-economic damages as well as court costs and interest.
She is being represented by Ben Salango of Salango Law in Charleston, and the case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Carrie Webster.
Tarullo is a Louisville native who was sports director at WOWK until she went in March to WLEX in Lexington, Kentucky, where she hosts BBN Tonight.
Kanawha Circuit Court case number 21-C-817