Doctor Forgets to do One Part of Operation
As amazing as it sounds, doctors sometimes forget to do a part of an operation. You can imagine how this happens, especially if they’ve got surgeries backed up, one after another, at the local hospital.
Is that malpractice? Can you recover damages. Here is an interesting case decided by the Supreme Court of Virginia that allowed a cases against a doctor to proceed when the doctor had forgotten to do a part of a surgery and the claimant had to have another surgery.
This is slightly different from wrong-sided surgery, which also happens.