What happens if doctors cut a vein during hernia surgery?

They're not going to cut the biggie, or get close to it, and if they cut a small vein, they'll either cauterize or tie it off. No big deal.

Maybe not a vein, but I know a doctor who nicked an artery while doing his first back surgery and the patient died. He never performed surgery again but has practiced many years since without even a suspension. He practices medicine but doesnt do surgery

Not likely to happen, but they would know it immediately and patch it. So nothing will happen. Besides, hernia surgery isn't anywhere close to the artery that you are talking about. Don't worry, I had hernia surgery in December and it was a piece of cake!! :+)

They cauterize it to stop the bleeding.

hernia surgery does not go near that vein at all. There is a vein that runs concurrent to the aorta down the spine called the vena cava. Also, the doctor does not go near this vein. There is no risk of bleeding to death from hernia surgery because a major vein or artery was hit. A hernia surgery is repairing a hole in the muscle of the abdominal wall where a bit of intestine has poked through.

They repair it.

Veins don`t run into legs. They run from legs. Direction of blood flow in veins is from periphery to heart. The most unskilled novice of a surgeon my rarely ablate the inferiorepigastric vein during a herniorrhaphy. The vein can be ligated .