Your father went into a Manhattan hospital for what the surgeon described as a routine colon resection. Five days later, he was feverish, confused, and in septic shock. Eleven days after the operation, he was gone. The hospital's patient relations office told you they were “conducting a thorough internal review” and would be in touch. While you wait for answers that may never come, the wrongful death statute of limitations in New York is already running — and it's shorter tha