That’s a great question and and there’s such a a distinct difference between risk of the surgery and a result of
medical malpractice. So I I want to dig into that a little bit and let’s take a specific example. Let’s say in any given surgery there is a risk of infection.
the patient uh presumably has gone through an informed consent discussion with his or her provider and and that
risk has been uh delineated as one among many many risks. Um the patient has elected to undergo the procedure.
Nevertheless, um the important distinction in in this example with infection, um if the
patient goes on to develop a serious infection, but it comes to light that the surgeon or or other um staff
participating in the surgery uh did not follow appropriate sterile technique, that’s not a risk of the procedure.
That’s medical malpractice. That’s negligent. Um, and the the patient did
not wave uh by signing an informed consent form did not wave the right to pursue that type of claim.