Complaining vs a surgeon

[niky]

First I'm not a surgeon nor a doctor hehehe.

AFAIK, there is always a risk of infection after a surgery. I think it is a matter of preventing it by the surgeon and everything around him to be clean during the surgery and by taking medicines afterwards.

Now the question is where did the first doctor went wrong?
Did the second doctor explicitly said that there was a mistake during the first surgery? This is important because you do not want to provide a hearsay as an evidence.

Anyway, on a related note. My wife's 90 year old grandmother also recently had an operation because of a broken hip suffered from a fall. She was likewise discharged after a couple of days. She did not spend a lot of time in the hospital. Therapy was done in the house. SO far, there no reports of infection.

This is the same thing I was thinking reading the OP.

A doctor will NOT recommend that a patient stay in the hospital for prolonged periods after an operation simply to continue therapy there. This is unnecessary additional expense on the part of the patient.

As soon as a patient is stable and does not need to be observed for bleeding or cardiac problems, they can go home and have therapy done there.