Who Can Sue For Bad Plastic Surgery

If you or a loved one has suffered injury or harm at the hands of a plastic surgeon, you may be eligible to seek compensation and should contact a local medical malpractice attorney. An accident attorney specializing in medical malpractice can also get you compensated for your past and future medical expenses, loss of income, disfigurement, disability, and emotional pain and suffering.

For example, breast augmentation carries the risk of resulting in capsular contracture, whereby the scar tissue around the breast hardens and squeezes the implant, causing pain and disfigurement that often requires additional surgery.

If you have had negative effects from plastic surgery that were not disclosed to you prior to operation, you should contact a medical malpractice attorney for possible negligence.

Possible Risks Of Plastic Surgery

Plastic surgeons are required to offer important information, whether or not their patients request such information, including risks of the surgery. Certain risks accompany virtually all surgeries, including risk of blood clots, anesthesia or medication reactions, infection, respiratory complications and death.

Factors that increase the risk of bad plastic surgery include: Prolonged surgery and multiple procedures:

Prolonged surgery and undergoing multiple procedures simultaneously both increase the risk of complications from plastic surgery. It is important to understand such risks before going under the knife.


Common Procedures that can go wrong:

• Breast augmentation
• Breast reduction
• Liposuction Face Lift Eye surgery
• Nose surgery
• Chemical peels

Surgeon Under-Qualification or Inexperience

Plastic surgeons must exercise a high degree of medical competency and care when treating patients. Failure to provide the level of skill, care, and treatment that a reasonable plastic surgeon would provide under similar circumstances may constitute medical malpractice. Medical malpractice, simply defined, is “treatment that doesn’t meet accepted medical standards, which causes injury to the patient.” Plastic surgery requires a great degree of knowledge and skill. Surgeons who are insufficiently trained or unqualified to perform particular procedures pose a great risk of producing bad, and even injurious, results.

If you have had any of these procedures that have gone wrong due to negligence or lack of information from your doctor, contact a medical malpractice lawyer to file a lawsuit. Some complications that can make the surgeon liable for medical malpractice include:

•  Infection
• Disfigurement or disability
• Death
• Scarring
• Anesthesia errors
• Numbness/ nerve damage
• Post-operative mismanagement
• Wrong size (breast implants)
• Loss of nipple or breast skin cover (breast surgeries)
• Excessive skin removal (face lift)
• Medication reactions or interactions
• Sexual misconduct

If any of these have happened to you or a loved one, contact a medical malpractice lawyer to file a claim against your doctor for negligence. In addition, if you or a loved one has suffered serious injury or emotional harm due to plastic surgery complications or errors, you may have the legal right to pursue a claim against those responsible.

Recent News About Bad Plastic Surgery

A Manhattan plastic surgeon whose practice has been the subject of dozens of lawsuits, including a pending malpractice suit on behalf of a woman who died in 2005 after a face-lift, has surrendered his medical license and can no longer practice medicine The doctor is accused of flawed conduct in the cases of four unnamed patients. By 2005, Dr. Sachs had settled 33 malpractice lawsuits. This could easily be you, so if you have surgery done by a negligent doctor, contact a medical malpractice lawyer.

In another case, A 34-year old investment banker in New York filed a lawsuit in 2001, claiming she received second- and third-degree burns on her face and neck from laser hair removal treatments at the Greenhouse Spa chain’s midtown Manhattan office. She says the scarring has caused her to become a virtual recluse who doesn’t date anymore and is embarrassed at her job. According to the complaint filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court, she was diagnosed with serious second- and third-degree burns that plastic surgery cannot repair and is filing for $1 million in damages.

If you or a loved one has suffered injury or harm at the hands of a plastic surgeon, you may be eligible to seek compensation and should contact a local medical malpractice attorney.