Culp v. Sifers Ex Rel. Estate of Sifers

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOHN W. LUNGSTRUM, District Judge.

This lawsuit arises from complications following a bariatric weight reduction surgery that was performed on plaintiff Teresa Culp by Timothy M. Sifers, M.D., who is now deceased. Ms. Culp alleges that Dr. Sifers was supposed to perform the surgery using a new technique called the “duodenal switch,” a procedure that is allegedly associated with fewer complications than older weight loss procedures, but that Dr. Sifers actually performed an unrecognized and unknown variation of an older procedure known as the “biliopan-creatic diversion”…