Suit claiming doctor ruined pregnancy chances dismissed

WINSTON-SALEM, NC (AP) — A North Carolina judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accuses a doctor of secretly inserting a device into a woman during surgery that she claims stopped her from getting pregnant.

Winston-Salem Journal reports the decision against Kimberly Bryant’s lawsuit was issued Friday by Forsyth County Judge Eric Morgan.

Bryant had filed the lawsuit against multiple parties including the doctor, Mehmet Tamer Yalcinkaya, and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center for the incident in 2007.

Her lawsuit says she found out about the device in 2017 and needed to have emergency surgery.

Yalcinkaya said he told both Bryant and her husband about the device and mentioned it in the post-operation notes.