Unnecessary Surgery
Surgery in Connecticut necessarily involves certain inherent risks that are attendant to the nature of any operation. Sometimes delayed healing, infections and adverse reactions to anesthesia occur and are not the result of medical neglect on the part of the Surgeon or Hospital staff. There are good reasons that support the exhaustion of more conservative means of treating health conditions and disease leaving elective surgery as a last resort.
A cancer patient may properly be advised to take more surgical risk as a reasonalbe tradeoff in an attempt to gain a better long term survival rate. This would not likely be true for a condition which may be managed successfuly without an operation unless it it the type which tends to become a much bigger problem without adequate capability to surveil it for a time beforehand. Sometimes the suggestion of surgery is naturally within the clinical discretion of the physician to propose based upon alternative methods of treatment and providing full disclosure about the available alternative and risks of the procedure( this concept is known as informed consent). In some instances , no prudent physian would likely recommend surgery and in that event to do so may amount to medical malpractice. The indication for surgery is often supported by labarotory results, pathology studies or radiology scans. AIf any of these is misread or innacurately reported to the ordering physician then the this can similarly result in an unnecessary procedure. As an example of such an occurence, my office sued and recovered a substantial settlement for a client that was told he had cancer and needed surgery when if fact the Hospital's pathology department switched his slides with that of another patient. The error was not discovered until after his surgery when the tissue removed during surgery came back with a cancer free report from the same pathology department. We can only hope that the hospital had the courage and good sense to immediately notify the other patient who no doubt was previously given the "good news" that they were cancer free.
My firm has developed excellent resources for detecting unnecessary surgeries which occured for a variety of reasons and supporting such cases with expert testimony. Cases are screened thoroughly before suit is initiated and legal fees are almost always based upon a contingency fee arrangement.
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Birth Injuries
Breast Cancer Misdiagnosis
Cancer Misdiagnosis
Lack of Informed Consent
Medical Malpractice
Patient Suicide
Retained Sponges and Surgical Instrumens
Surgical Errors
Wrong Site Surgery
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