Judge Orders Dr. Jan Adams To Start Paying Former Patient

Dr. Jan Adams, the surgeon who operated on Donda West the day before she died, was back in court on Tuesday as a former patient scored a financial victory against Adams.

Adams and an attorney for former patient Lori Ufondu came to an agreement whereby Adams has started making payments towards the $100,000 settlement reached after Ufondu sued the doctor, claiming he left a sponge inside of her for six years after a surgical procedure.

Both parties were in court for less than five minutes on Tuesday to inform the judge of their agreement.

In an earlier interview, Ufondu told Access Hollywood she went to see Dr. Adams in 1996 to fix a breast augmentation done by another doctor.

She says following the surgery performed by Dr. Adams, she was left with dents below both breasts.

“It was quite large, quite large. It took up quite a bit of room in my breast,” Ufondu told Access Hollywood of the material left inside her body.

However, it wasn’t until 2003 that Ufondu went to another doctor for reconstructive surgery to correct the problem and the new doctor discovered the sponge, or surgical gauze, that had been left inside for so many years.

“He said that when he opened it up, first of all the stench from the infected area, from the infection was really bad. He said his nurses started to cry. They couldn’t believe what they had seen,” Ufondu told Access Hollywood.

She sued Dr. Adams for medical malpractice and was awarded a default judgment of over $100,000. However, Dr. Adams had failed to pay her after the ruling, thus the reason the case was back in court.

The case has been continued until April 7, 2008 to make sure Dr. Adams is making payments.