You scheduled a gallbladder surgery at a Nassau County hospital, expecting a two-day recovery. Instead, you woke up to a bile duct injury, a second emergency surgery, and a year of stents, drains, and infections. Now you're trying to figure out where to file your case, who to sue, and how a jury in Mineola is going to see the numbers your life-care planner is going to put up on the screen. The answers are very different than they would be if your surgery had happened at a hos