See if your state charges for medical errors

As a retired physician, I am shocked to learn that any provider would have the audacity to bill
after making an error. My advice to the patients in this situation is to see a malpractice attorney immediately.

My mother was weak to begin with when she had to get a pace maker put in her...the drugs which she had been on for a year, (to help her heart), had almost killed her and her heart was now only working at 30% capacity....and her heartbeat was off....so first operation didn't work the pacemaker wouldn't stay in place....not doctor error but the device was defective....they went in for a second time with the same device and tried to secure it again....it came out....so they got a new pace maker with good hooks to attach to the body and stay in place....it worked! So by the time my mom got done with three operations she was so weak....not always the doctor's fault....system failure or device failure can happen....but at what point does a dr. figure it out and send it back to the company or order a new one..yes they tried to bill all 3 operations, but my family refused and gave them flack...stating it was up to the maker of the device to cover the operations (2) which involved the defective pacemaker...So my mother had to have two unnecessary operations and the dr. had to put in alot of extra work.