New York | Medical Malpractice
Legal Question
neglegance caused permanent scar
I broke an arm and had a deep cut in an ankle when out of the country. The local doctor did excellent jobs for both surgery. When I come back to New York after 4 days, the doctor in New York insisted on removing the stitches on the ankle wound against my protest that the wound was not healed and stitches shouldn't be removed for another 3-6 days according to the original doctor's instruction. As a consequence, half of the stitches were unremovable and poped out in the next few weeks, and the whole would was badly infected and left a dark scar which would not heal. I will have to do a plastic surgery later on to remove the scar (2 inches), while the other much more severe injury has healed 100 times better.
My question is - 1) will i be able to make a case against the doctor? 2) will i be compensated enough if I win to cover a reasonable cosmetic surgery or it's a waste of time and energy in this case?
I really appreciate your opinions.
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