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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2022
The claimant presented with abdominal pain from the age of 18 years through to the age of 36 years. When she finally underwent a laparoscopy, she was found to have grade 4 endometriosis which had spread around her ovaries, colon and the wall of the abdomen. She underwent treatment, but as the endometriosis was so far advanced it could not be fully treated and it was alleged: i) it had been negligent to consider her symptoms to be related to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) alone; ii) there had been a failure to consider a diagnosis of endometriosis earlier; iii) there had been a failure to perform a laparoscopy earlier, even though her symptoms remained unchanged after treatment.
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