botched surgery
Operation gone wrong
Botched surgery is a medical procedure that went badly wrong, typically leaving the patient worse off than before.
The term appears most often with cosmetic procedures: She needed three operations to fix her botched nose job.
A surgery may be botched through incompetence, negligence, or simple error.
The phrase carries an accusatory edge—someone is to blame.
- medical malpracticeSubstandard care causing injury
- malpracticeHarmful professional negligence
- negligenceFailure to exercise care
- scarPermanent mark from healing
- disfiguredSpoiled in appearance
lawsuit · complications · infection · bleeding · anesthesia · scalpel · operating room · operating · table · going under · wound · stitches · nerve damage · hospital · mistake · error · trauma · disfigurement
- malpracticemalpractice, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, malpractice insurance, professional negligence
- shoddy workhack job, rush job
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