Negligent Surgery And Operation Compensation Claims

Surgery can be a frightening experience, but if we ever have to go under the surgeon’s knife, we all hope that the surgery will be carried out correctly.

Unfortunately, this is not always the case and compensation claims arising out of negligently performed surgery are on the increase.

One particular area of surgical treatment which has seen a rise in the number of compensation claims being brought by patients who had negligent surgery is in the field of general surgery.

General surgery, despite its name, is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal organs, e.g. intestines including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland (depending on the availability of head and neck surgery specialists). They also deal with diseases involving the skin and hernias.  These surgeons deal mainly in the Torso.

General surgery is often performed as an emergency, for example to treat an ischaemic bowel or to repair a damaged bile duct, but more and more patients are seeing that their surgery is performed negligently, leaving them with severe and sadly sometimes fatal consequences, which give rise to claims for compensation.

Unfortunately, claims resulting from negligently performed surgery to other parts of the body are also on the increase; the orthopaedic surgeon who operates on the wrong knee or who breaks the patient’s femur during a hip replacement operation or the neurosurgeon that negligently performs an operation on the patient’s brain to remove a cyst, leaving the patient with severe brain damage.

Pinstripe make it easy for you to claim compensation. All you need to do is complete the simple online form opposite and the experienced and friendly claims team will handle it from there. It’s that easy!