My 18 yr old daughter just had to have her tonsil removed for the second time! When she was 7, she had them removed and the surgeon did not take all of the tissue out. Over the years, she's continued to have infections and they had enlarged to above normal size again.
She had one episode where she got "tonsillitis" and one of them absessed. The original surgeon was out on the golf course and couldnt come into ER to look at it, so he sent us, by ambulance 90 miles away because he said it was "life threatening". We arrived at the city ER, and the attending doctor shook his head and said there was no reason that we had to come by ambulance and anyone at our local hospital could have lanced it. He lanced and drained it, and sent us home. He said that the original surgeon left pieces of the tonsil in there and hadn't removed them all during the surgery.
I took her back to the original doctor, told him what happened and he claims that we have a second set of tonsils behind the first that people ususally dont see until the first ones are removed. he claims that the second set are what were getting infected and enlarging, not reminents of the first.
We went to another ENT and had the pieces removed and he said that the "rim" of the first pair was left in there and that is what continued to get infected. So its two against one..... what is the statue of limitations for suing a doctor for something like this?
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