WOW! I had a quadruple bypass, multiple cardiac arrests while in surgery. I needed two valves repaired too, but they said "not today!" They couldn't close my chest for four days because my heart would go into arrhythmias. I was in a medically induced coma for a week. 3 weeks in CCU. When I finally was with the program,I noticed I had a large wound under my left breast. No one could
(? or would) tell me why. I was discharged after a month with the wound still weeping, needing twice a day dressing changes. Had home health and NO ONE mentioned the wound. (except me) I saw the surgeon, who kept telling me he didn't deal with breasts and no idea. I saw my primary, who could send me to a breast surgeon....I finally asked for a diagnostic mammogram which showed fatty necrosis (fat death) from "taking the mammary artery". NO ONE told me they took that artery. I try now to find some humor in this whole mess because I have one "large" and one "small" breast!!! My kids have told me to call an attorney, but I'm alive. How do I complain about something that is now healed, but very different when I'm alive? I think about attorneys, but I complain that society has become litigious....You have to make a decision to be grateful or seek compensation....keeping in mind if you sue, you lose the doctor you have.
Good luck, God Bless in your decisions.