Surgical Errors
When you go under the knife, you risk a number of normal complications, such as post-op fever or infection. However, when surgeons make preventable medical errors, the result can be life threatening.
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As the number of surgical procedures being performed continues to rise each year – with both elective and non-elective surgeries – the number of avoidable surgical errors increases as well. Some surgical errors should “never” happen, such as operating on the wrong patient, wrong site or performing the wrong procedure. Other surgical error injuries could have been prevented had surgeons or staff taken appropriate measures to avoid mistakes, such as proper training, credentialing and record keeping.
Examples of surgical errors include:
• Wrong-site Surgery (operating on the wrong limb or body part)
• Wrong Surgical Procedure (removing the wrong body part or organ)
• Surgical Instrument Left in Body (retractors, clamps or sponges)
These kinds of surgical errors are never justified. You can be sure that hospitals and surgeons will have a team of experienced surgical medical malpractice attorneys prepared to defend themselves. To most effectively battle their team of defense attorneys, be sure you have experienced attorneys on your side.
You need surgical medical malpractice attorneys Fellows, Hymowitz & Epstein. We understand the intricacies of complex medical malpractice cases. We will represent you in a manner to obtain the most successful outcome possible for your specific surgical negligence case.
If you have been harmed by surgical medical malpractice,
Fellows, Hymowitz & Epstein may be able to help.
