Alex Cisak sues surgeon

[hackneyfox]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-24746240

 

 

[Rob1742]

Real shame if a young lad has had his career shorten for lessened in anyway by an operation.

Interesting how this is going to pan out.

My view is that I would not think he would be taking action if it wasn't affecting him. He is at Burnley so if everything was rosy in the garden I would have thought he would have just carried on playing without bringing a case

[GingerrrFox]

I'd say this is very dangerous territory depending on the result of this. If you get injured there is no guarantee that you will ever return back to your previous state. If the Doctor has performed the surgery and then the player returns to training and he's not 100% it's not the Doctors fault (unless he's botched the surgery). Arguing about the time returned to training is pretty hard to prove, unless he's got written evidence. Some players get injured and despite multiple surgeries can never play again that's just how it goes. You can't blame a surgeon for that.

[Zaid]

that keeper sounds like a right twat!

[indierich06]

To be fair, if he was told to go back to training when his fracture wasn't fully healed, he's well within his rights to sue IMO. Surely he's just followed the doctor's orders, and now he's been left with chronic pain because of it.

[stud2012]

Hardly hampered his career? Hes no2 at Burnley the highest level he has and prob will ever reach.I would say his career has been on the up since the injury.

 

The surgeon tried to help and performed the operation and then maybe just maybe got his judgement wrong.In hindsight when he was approached to perform the operation i bet he wishes he would have told him to pissss off.God why do people in this day and age always look to blame someone?One thing is for sure the surgeon did have an effect on his career,if he would never have performed the operation maybe his career would have been over.I think he should be thanking the surgeon for giving him a chance. 

[indierich06]

Hardly hampered his career? Hes no2 at Burnley the highest level he has and prob will ever reach.I would say his career has been on the up since the injury.

 

The surgeon tried to help and performed the operation and then maybe just maybe got his judgement wrong.In hindsight when he was approached to perform the operation i bet he wishes he would have told him to pissss off.God why do people in this day and age always look to blame someone?One thing is for sure the surgeon did have an effect on his career,if he would never have performed the operation maybe his career would have been over.I think he should be thanking the surgeon for giving him a chance. 

 

Whether he's a footballer or not, if the surgeon's said 'yeah, don't worry about it, go back to training now' and he's ended up with chronic pain in his wrist, then the surgeon's at fault, simple as. Errors by doctors and surgeons can have life altering consequences, this might not seem so bad, but it could well stop him from playing in the future - and even if it doesn't, why should he have to live with pain for the rest of his life because a doctor ****ed up?

[Bryn]

Depends whether or not the surgeon followed guidelines. If he told Cisak to go back earlier than the recommended time he might well be found to have been negligent. If he allowed him to return to training within the normal time frame with evidence of healing he hasn't been negligent.

 

There's no evidence at this minute, indierich, that the surgeon ****ed up. For all we know the surgery went as planned and Cisak returned to work on the basis of radiological evidence of fracture healing within a normal time frame and this is simply one of those things that noone can be blamed for.