Doctors must be managed.
as long as she understood the risk and was willing to take it.....fine...if she got infected, paralyzed, died......
well then the family would of course would not have invited him to the recital but I'm sure would have invited him to a Morbidity and Mortality conference, followed by a really cool deposition, and then some really, really, really neat meeting with the medical staff review committees and finally arbitration or trial..
I love stories like this. Cause we all know that doctors are dumba$$3@ that only want your money.
the fact is that the doctor took the risk WITH the patient. She seemed competent and should have been allowed the surgery, but I think he got very lucky.... and the patient had a good outcome.. congrats to the patient and kudos to the surgeon.