Michigan Surgical Error Lawyer

Surgery always carries risk, but some harm is not a known risk — it is a preventable mistake. A surgical error is care during or around an operation that falls below the accepted standard and injures the patient. When that happens, the surgeon, the anesthesiologist, and the hospital can all be on the hook depending on what went wrong.

Preventable surgical mistakes

• Wrong-site, wrong-procedure, or wrong-patient surgery — errors so avoidable they are often called "never events."
• Instruments, sponges, or other items left inside the body after the operation is closed.
• Anesthesia errors — wrong dose, failure to monitor, or failure to account for a patient's history.
• Negligent damage to organs, nerves, or blood vessels, or a failure to recognize and treat post-operative complications and infection.

A disappointing result is not automatically malpractice. The question Michigan law asks is whether the care fell below what a competent provider would have done, and whether that failure caused the injury — which is why these cases depend on the operative records and qualified surgical experts.

Surgical-error claims proceed under Michigan's medical-malpractice rules, including the pre-suit notice and affidavit of merit and the strict deadlines that apply. Tell us what happened and we will evaluate whether there is a case.