You went into surgery trusting your doctor to fix the problem. Instead, you woke up worse than before—or with entirely new complications that shouldn’t have happened. What was supposed to be a routine procedure has left you facing months of additional treatment, permanent disabilities, or life-threatening infections.
Surgical errors aren’t as rare as hospitals want you to believe. When surgical negligence occurs, it’s often because basic safety protocols were ignored or critical mistakes were made that any competent surgeon should have avoided. Here are some of the most common:
- Gallbladder Surgery (Cholecystectomy). Laparoscopic gallbladder removal is considered routine, but errors frequently occur when surgeons nick the bile duct, perforate organs, or fail to identify anatomical variations. These mistakes can cause bile leaks, infections, and require multiple additional surgeries to repair the damage.
- Removing an inflamed appendix should be straightforward, but complications arise when surgeons perforate the bowel, leave surgical instruments inside the patient, or fail to properly clean the surgical site, leading to dangerous infections that can be life-threatening.
- Hernia Repair. Hernia surgeries commonly result in malpractice claims due to improper mesh placement, nerve damage, or failure to repair the hernia completely. Patients may experience chronic pain, mesh migration, or hernia recurrence requiring painful revision surgeries.
- Orthopedic Surgery. Joint replacements, fracture repairs, and spine surgeries carry high malpractice risks. Common errors include operating on the wrong body part, improper implant placement, nerve damage, and infections that can lead to amputation or permanent disability.
- Heart Surgery. Cardiac procedures are complex, but many malpractice cases involve preventable errors like damaging surrounding organs, improper bypass grafts, or failure to monitor patients adequately during recovery, leading to strokes or heart attacks.
- General Abdominal Surgery. Operations involving the intestines, stomach, or other abdominal organs frequently result in claims due to organ perforation, failure to control bleeding, or leaving foreign objects inside the patient. These errors can cause sepsis, additional surgeries, and permanent complications.
Surgical malpractice occurs when doctors fail to meet the accepted standard of care. If you’ve been injured due to surgical negligence, you have the right to compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering.
The Law Offices of Tim Misny can help you get the compensation you deserve for surgical malpractice. When doctors make preventable mistakes that harm you, I’ll Make Them Pay!® Call my office at (877) 944-4373 so that I can evaluate your case right away.
