Green meet Greenfield

Mark Green wants to make Jessica Greenfield's suffering a central part of his campaign for Governor.

Bring it on.

Greenfield, had a botched surgery that left her inner organs paralyzed. Her nerves were severed during the procedure, which involved wrapping the top of the stomach around her esophagus to prevent heartburn.

Greenfield argued that a surgeon at a Madison hospital was negligent in performing the surgery. A jury of her peers agreed, finding the surgeon and Dean Health System negligent.

The jury awarded her $8.4 million for her suffering as a victim of the medical malpractice case. The jury awarded Greenfield $4.13 million for economic damages such as medical expenses and lost wages. It also included $4.25 million for pain and suffering and $82,000 to Greenfield's son for loss of companionship with his mother.

Mark Green thinks that's too much and that she should have only received $445,000 for her pain and suffering.

On this case and any other Green will stand on the side of Insurance companies and not victims.

Greenfield, who has used a feeding tube since the 2000 surgery left her stomach and intestines unable to function and who returns to the hospital every month to empty her stomach, had this to say,

"My life has been hell and unfortunately money doesn't change any of that. I can't eat anything. I live on machines 12 hours a day. And that's just the beginning."

Mark Green meet Jessica Greenfield.
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UPDATE: Mark Green would call Jessica Greenfield's medical malpractice case a "frivolous lawsuit." He will be talking a lot about supposed "frivolous lawsuits" this campaign year.

What would he call this?