Dr. Ronald Cooper, MD

I had a hernia surgery with Dr Cooper on2/22/2018. It was scheduled as a laparoscopic, outpatient surgery in 45 min or so. It took 4.5 hrs and I was hospitalized after for 4 days with excruciating abdominal pain. I had 3 follow-up appointments and he told me he had a complication and cut a portion of my bowel. Newer told me why. In September 2019 I found out by accident, there's a case information for every surgery. It turned out he injured my small bowel (enterotomy) by accident and convert to an open procedure that took 4+ hrs. yes, mistakes/accidents may happen, especially if you don't know what are you doing, if you are tired, if you are in a hurry. But I think the patients are entitled to know what happened during the surgery. And Dr Cooper never told me. In addition, after the surgery the instrument and Bovie counts were incorrect. They had 2 more Movie tips and 2 more forceps than initially written down. This fact tells me that my bowel injury may have caused by not caring.