Another anecdote... My step sister went in to have a growth removed from her arm. Was just supposed to be a simple outpatient procedure. They put a cuff on her arm and injected lidocaine. Their first mistake was loosening up the cuff which shot lidocaine into her heart and stopped it. The second mistake was that no one noticed for 5 minutes. She was literally sitting there dead for 5 minutes. They somehow revived her but the had brain damage. She acts like a completely different person now. She got diagnosed as bipolar afterwards and the hospital claimed that she just always was like that. They offered a small amount that they ended up having to take it after a whole horrible legal process. It was like maybe 50k for completely disabling her. She has 4 kids, one disabled, and is too incompetent to take care of them. She lost them all. She now is off and on homeless after she started breaking all the windows in the house and lost her fiance because he couldn't take it anymore. She hordes trash and thinks she's going to be a famous singer. If I remember right, the anesthesiologist got in trouble for previously watching porn on his phone during procedures.