[Question] My wife had a myomectomy surgery. Went to all required checkups and 6 weeks later, she developed an infection from the surgery. What should our next course of action be?

The surgery went well the day of and there were no complications during it and there were none found the 6 weeks after and leading up to the infection. She started getting terrible fevers and chills and was vomiting almost everything. Went to ER and they found two abscesses on her uterus. It had to be drained and cultures were done to assess the pathogen causing the infection. It was poly-microbial and one of the bacteria was Propionibacterium which is some sort of skin infection but was inside her uterus. The infection cleared up after about 9 days in the hospital and she's doing fine now.

If this infection happened as a result of the surgery, are we still liable to pay for the costs of this? Should we seek legal advice? Call insurance company?

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