If these charges are true, it looks bad for Dr. Ben. I don’t know how common it is for surgeons to make such mistakes. Maybe a 7% ratio is not unusual, for instance. Hopefully, Ben has already briefed his campaign team on this part of his past, so that they won’t be caught flatfooted and tongue tied. “Ben, why didn’t you tell me all this, maybe two years ago?! ...You never asked me, that’s why”
A big if. See my #20. I wonder if there are actual verdicts (no settlements, but verdicts). A huge number of suits are settled to save money in the long run.
When you have major surgeries, you'll have a "team leader" whose responsibility is to do the major complicated work.
Once that's done, the remainder is left to the subordinates to do the clean up stuff such as sewing up the patient and insuring the pliers and screw drivers weren't left inside........
It’s reaching and in reality is nothing. A doctor being sued is common as pie. It doesn’t even need to be valid, people get paid off to go away because of the high lawyer fees. I’ve also heard how common it is for something to get left inside a patient. With all the pads and blood it’s, unfortunately, not surprising.
...I’m waiting for the infidelity “stories”, seems to be the lefts favorite “go to” strategy when they fear a male conservative - even if only with the “unnamed accusers”.
In high risk surgery you get bad outcomes more often. 6 lawsuits over a 30 or so year career as a neurosurgeon is probably not a bad track record.
Read some other commentary on this last night. Six malpractice, none of them moved forward (were not prosecuted), no evidence of pleas.
He performed something like 400 surgeries a year, 30 year professional history. and NI came up with six malpractice charges?
He was removing tumors from peoples brains. And they sued because they lived, but had problems. What was their other alternative: death?