How Can My New York Surgery Go Wrong?

Medical malpractice is all too common in New York City, with tens of thousands of patients each year suffering injury and complications because of the negligent acts of their doctors, their health professionals, and their hospitals. One of the most common and most dangerous form of NYC medical malpractice is surgical errors. These surgical errors can take on a number of forms and have a number of serious consequences, including permanent disability, pain and suffering, and even death.

Here are just a few examples of how your surgery could go wrong:

· A man from Queens has a knee operation, but the anesthesiologist does not properly monitor his breathing and heart rate during the surgery. He does not get enough oxygen during the procedure and suffers permanent brain damage.

· A woman in Manhattan needs wrist surgery to fix a carpal tunnel problem. When she wakes up from her operation, she discovers that the doctor has preformed surgery on the wrong hand.

· For weeks after her hysterectomy, a woman suffers severe abdominal pain. An x-ray reveals that her surgeon left behind a surgical instrument in her abdominal cavity, causing serious complications.

· A man from the Bronx has surgery following a serious car accident. While the surgery fixed some of his problems, it also caused irreversible nerve damage that ruined his career as a musician and seriously harmed the quality of his life.

· A woman from Brooklyn is given the wrong amount of medication to put her under for her hernia operation. She slips into a coma and dies during the seemingly simple and routine surgery.