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Woman catches fire during hemorrhoid operation
The Local - Sweden's news in English ^
| 12 Dec 07
| Paul O'Mahony
Posted on 12/13/2007 6:46:39 PM PST by pa_dweller
Sweden's welfare board has criticized a hospital in Stockholm after a 40-year-old woman caught fire during a hemorrhoid operation, Aftonbladet reports.
While the woman's piles were successfully removed by doctors at Ersta Hospital, she ended up leaving the surgery in September with a partially burned backside.
In addition to the hemorrhoids, the woman was also in hospital to have a lump removed with the aid of electrosurgery. The accident took place after a nurse had cleaned the woman's skin with an antiseptic solution.
With some of the highly flammable liquid having trickled under the women's body, the patient caught fire when staff switched on the electrical current and began operating.
By the time the nurse succeeded in putting out the fire, the woman had been left with three red burn marks. She later made several return visits to the hospital in order to be treated for her new injuries.
The National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) has now ordered the hospital to draft a set of written procedures to ensure that patients are not exposed to similar risks in future.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: combustiblekeester; yikes
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Heckuva title, eh?
To: pa_dweller
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posted on
12/13/2007 6:47:56 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
To: pa_dweller
Socialized medicine....a burning hemerrhoid in the rectum of life
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posted on
12/13/2007 6:48:26 PM PST
by
G8 Diplomat
(Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
To: pa_dweller
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posted on
12/13/2007 6:49:00 PM PST
by
RDTF
(Remember Pearl Harbor)
To: pa_dweller
The thought of Socialized Healthcare really burns my ass too!
5
posted on
12/13/2007 6:49:14 PM PST
by
digger48
To: pa_dweller
Is Preparation H flammable?
To: pa_dweller
Not the
Onion? OK. This internet thing gives me too much information.
5.56mm
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posted on
12/13/2007 6:50:14 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: cripplecreek
That is so bad, but so funny! LOL
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posted on
12/13/2007 6:51:32 PM PST
by
MaggieM
(Tanti galli a cantar non fa mai giorno ( Too many chiefs, not enough warriors))
To: pa_dweller
It happens sometimes.
People just explode.
Natural causes.
9
posted on
12/13/2007 6:51:47 PM PST
by
HAL9000
(Fred Thompson/Mike Huckabee 2008)
To: pa_dweller
Woman catches fire during hemorrhoid operation You know you're having a sh##ty day when...
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posted on
12/13/2007 6:52:33 PM PST
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: windcliff
When you know you are having a bad day ping.
To: pa_dweller
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posted on
12/13/2007 6:58:03 PM PST
by
dighton
To: pa_dweller
I’m more upset about the castrated lion!
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:01:37 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: cripplecreek
To: cripplecreek; TigersEye
FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!!
Best laugh of the night! Thanks !
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:07:37 PM PST
by
pandoraou812
( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
To: pa_dweller
Don’t laugh. It could happen in this country.
There was a woman having plastic surgery who caught fire and was very badly burned.
She had alcohol from a hemorrhoid lotion on her face and it caught fire. She was seriously injured.
From what I hear the alcohol pads you put on hemorrhoids are used by models to remove/reduce wrinkles. It is flammable or combustible, or whatever.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:08:12 PM PST
by
ladyjane
To: pa_dweller
No person in their right mind would return to that hospital but with Socialized medicine you have no choice.
The doctors and nurses all get a second, and maybe third chance to kill you.
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:08:42 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: pa_dweller
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:08:54 PM PST
by
mikrofon
To: pa_dweller
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:09:27 PM PST
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: ladyjane
Doctor,..I have this burning sensation....
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posted on
12/13/2007 7:10:06 PM PST
by
Cvengr
(Every believer is a grenade. Arrogance is the grenade pin. Pull the pin and fragment your life.)
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