SPINAL SURGERY
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Medical negligence cases of spinal surgery often involve issues of the expertise in investigating, recommending and performing an operation, also in identifying and treating the complications of surgery.
Patients come to us having suffered catastrophic injury from surgery that they hoped would resolve pain and return near normal function.
To let you know whether we can succeed in a claim on your behalf for medical negligence involving spinal surgery we need to consider the history of your condition as well as your surgery and decisions taken around the time of surgery.
Issues of Consent can be crucial in spinal surgery cases.
Because of the small but catastrophic risks of surgery it is crucial that your specialist has properly ensured that all non surgical, and less risky surgical options have been fully explored, and discussed. Your specialist must not just answer your questions but make sure you are fully aware of what can go wrong, the chances of it going wrong, and the possible range of consequences for you. To fail to do so represents medical negligence.
We will ask you what you would have done had the risks been properly discussed with you.
This is a difficult question to answer as of course it is being asked after complications have occurred with surgery.
Would you have tried different treatments, sought another opinion, delayed surgery whilst considering your options? If so we may be able to succeed in your claim on the basis of consent.
We will consider all the issues in your case with you and with a range of specialist medical experts to ensure that we leave no stone unturned in recovering compensation to help you minimise the consequences of your injury.
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