If two doctors told you that the procedure was incorrectly done, necessitating another surgery, your son very likely has a good medical malpractice case. The question is when to bring it. You haven't said when the first surgery took place, but assuming your son is still under 18, the statute of limitations to sue for medical malpractice is tolled until 10 years after date of the injury. A second surgery might repair the problem but there also might be complications that do not emerge until he's older. That being said, the younger that your child is when you start a lawsuit, the less embarrassing it will be to him, and the less disruptive to his life. Give some serious thought to the timing of filing an action- you have time.
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