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Half of all medical malpractice cases filed in the United States involve surgeons. These cases involve surgical procedures, pre-operative work-ups and after-surgery recovery. Surgery is never risk free, but a less than perfect surgical outcome that results from surgery that is considered to be below the accepted standard of care and treatment is not a risk, it is surgical malpractice.

Some surgical procedures that are commonly involved in surgical medical malpractice cases are those involving cosmetic surgery, LASIK eye surgery, gastric bypass surgery, back and orthopedic surgery. There are millions of surgical procedures performed every day in this country and a higher than expected rate of errors reported. Errors occur with anesthesia, the wrong part of the body being operated on, the wrong limb being amputated, surgical instruments left in the surgical site and post-surgical infections.

Most surgical errors are the fault of the surgeon, an anesthesiologist's mistake, or negligence on the part of the hospital. The patients and families of patients victimized by surgical medical malpractice should not have to bear the consequences of someone else's mistake alone.

If you live in New York City or the surrounding area and you or a loved one has been the victim of surgical medical malpractice, please contact an experienced surgical medical malpractice attorney at The Cochran Firm's New York City office today to schedule a confidential consultation at no cost to you to learn about your legal rights in this matter.

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