Uh, John Hopkins, that's not VA right? OK, so I'd get a lawyer looking at it right now (funny me saying that) but I'd be researching the lawyer first. But I'd be doing it ASAP! You're right though this does not sound kosher. SO if I read this correctly he went in through a femoral and destroyed some shit along the way which snowballed into this damage. He signed a "waiver" of a sort, or maybe an agreement to the "procedure" which probably has a CYA clause in it somewhere. Read deeply into the paperwork, deeply. Best I can say without knowing all the facts and seeing the paperwork but I'd definitely get a legal eagle into this thing to review the documents.

Just my "roll-a-quarters" all else fails, use the roll a quarters.