What legal actions can I take for surgery complicatons?

[baigh]

My father died of complications after a colon surgery. A blood vessel was broken during the surgery, and the surgeon couldn't locate the broken vessel, and eventually the internal bleeding caused cardiac failure. Is there any point seeking legal opinion from a lawyer and see if we can take legal action? Our family doctor says there is no point trying because these accidents are already accounted for as risks in the surgery agreement paper signed by my father. Has anyone encountered similar situations? and is this some kind of medical malpractice?

[abraham90]

Complications don't prove malpractice.

[chozai65]

You're going to have to have another doctor say that the surgeon did not act professionally. Got one?

[hjortur]

You're going to have to have another doctor say that the surgeon did not act professionally. Got one?

Are you trying to make money off your dad's death? Or, are you really concerned that the doctor was negligent?

[jamilah38]

There really isn't anything you can do. Complications do happen and your father would have been informed of this before the operation and he would have needed to consent anyway. malpractice means that he would have needed to to something grossly negligent, and not location a broken blood vessel doesn't qualify. Plus, there is no way to prove that the broken blood vessel is for certain what caused the heart failure. Cardiac failure can be caused by many different things.