You were rear-ended on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, and after months of failed injections, a surgeon fused two vertebrae in your neck. You did the physical therapy. You thought the hardest part was behind you. Then, at a follow-up visit, your surgeon points to the level above the fusion on a new MRI and tells you it's breaking down — a condition called adjacent segment disease — and that you'll likely need a second operation. That single sentence, if it's properly docum