This brings to mind two cases in which I was named in a lawsuit in precisely the circumstances described. In one case, a general surgeon doing a laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair had an iliac vein injury. Ultimately, the vein was ligated. I felt it was irreparable by the time I had become involved. In the lawsuit that ensued, it was specified that I should have repaired the vein rather than ligating it. I was, fortunately, dropped from this when the general surgeon settled the suit.
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