AboutEdward A. Smith Expertise California Personal Injury lawyer with 18 years of experience handling automobile accidents, dogbites, slip and fall cases as well as medical malpractice cases will answer your questions regarding these areas. Valuestar Certified. Author of "Top 20 PI sites on the Internet" for Law Office Computing Magazine
I noticed that you responded to a question some time ago about a patient that developed arachnoiditis. I have finally, after 5 years been diagnosed by the Neurosurgery team at Mayo as having Arachnoiditis in addition to failed back surgery syndrome. I had a surgeon on my back that screwed up just about every aspect of my surgeries but just about every attorney has a conflict with suing him since he has a million patients here in Sacramento. My question is- Is arachnoiditis a condition that the dr can be held accountable for? I am not sure if the surgeon or a radiologist that preformed a spinal tap a few years ago caused it but now I am in worse pain then I was before the surgeries.
Answer The answer is that sometimes they may be...it all depends on the circumstances involved.
