We've received your submission.Bobby Jenks, a former White Sox closer and Red Sox pitcher, has received a $5.1 million settlement in a medical malpractice case that allegedly led to his career being cut short.Jenks has alleged his career ended when a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital operated on his back while working on another operation at the same time, The day before his case was set to go to trial, he came to an agreement with the hospital and Dr. Kirkham Wood, its former head of orthopedic spine surgery.Jenks appeared in 19 games with the Red Sox in 2011 before suffering a back injury. General, where he underwent back surgery in 2011, or Dr. Kirkham Wood, the attending surgeon who juggled his case with that of another patient’s. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! In the other, he woke up in a stranger’s car wearing only his underwear and covered in glass. “I had the game taken away from me because of a botched back surgery in Boston that was supposed to be no big deal — because a level of care and professional expertise that I trusted to be present .

As of May 2019, he lives in Malibu, California.

Six months later, he had back surgery, never to pitch again.“Never picking up a baseball again is absolutely devastating,” Jenks said. Dennis Burke, who was a prominent knee and hip surgeon at Mass. General in 2015 and is a professor of orthopedic surgery at Stanford University Medical Center, referred questions to his lawyer, Richard Riley, of Boston.Riley said Wood “performed the entirety of Mr. Jenks’s surgery” and “there was no ‘concurrent surgery’ issue.” Riley also said Jenks’s suggestion that he got addicted to painkillers because of his operation “is not supported by the evidence, including Mr. Jenks’s own deposition.”Beyond his contribution to The Players’ Tribune — an online platform started by retired Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter to showcase articles by athletes — Jenks in September wrote Massachusetts state representative Hannah Kane, a Shrewsbury Republican, to express support for a bill she filed.

But he said the primary reason for telling his story was to change surgical practices.“I’m hoping to use my platform to start a movement in this country against concurrent surgeries,” he wrote.He didn’t name Mass. He was a two-time All-Star and saved 173 games in his career. Burke alleged that he was dismissed for blowing the whistle on double-booking.

Former Red Sox pitcher Bobby Jenks says he’s launching a campaign to stop surgeons from overseeing two operations at once, seven months after he received $5.1 million to settle a claim that he suffered a career-ending spine injury as a result of the practice at Massachusetts General Hospital.“I didn’t decide to stop playing baseball,” wrote Jenks, who appears in a photograph showing a 15-inch surgical scar on his back. Former closer who was a two-time All-Star and won a World Series championship with the Chicago White Sox in 2005. Bobby Jenks is a baseball player from California, United States.

Would you like to receive desktop browser notifications about breaking news and other major stories? Back in May, Bobby Jenks officially closed out his career with a win, taking the form of a $5.1 million settlement from the hospital that botched his back surgery. General unexpectedly agreed to pay Burke $13 million to settle a wrongful-termination suit he filed after the hospital fired him in 2015. Jenks told The Boston Globe that he would have had his bone spur surgery elsewhere had he known about the overlapping schedules. It turned out that he had suffered a tear in the dural sac that covers the spine and leaked spinal fluid.Jenks went to a surgeon in Arizona for an urgent second operation.“ ‘Son,’ the doctor said after I regained consciousness at the hospital, ‘you’re lucky to be alive,’ ” Jenks wrote. was not there.”Jenks, 38, a two-time All Star for the Chicago White Sox who came to Boston in 2011 and pitched in 19 games before hurting his back, also detailed his addiction to pain pills and alcohol, the collapse of his first marriage, his run-ins with the law, and recovery from substance abuse. Seattle BLM protesters demand white people ‘give up' their homesJennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez buy $40M Miami homeTrump visits 'very ill' brother Robert in NYC hospitalBison rips pants off woman in violent attack caught on videoNYC man wanted for torching NYPD car busted after taunting feds Personal.