Posted on 08/25/2009 11:12:11 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
After months of excruciating pain, Mark Wattson was relieved to finally have his appendix taken out.
NHS doctors told him the operation to remove the ruptured organ was a 'success' and he was discharged from Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wilts.
But just weeks later the 35-year-old collapsed in agony and had to be re-admitted by ambulance.
To his horror surgeons from the same team told him that his appendix was still inside him and had burst.
In an emergency operation it was finally removed, leaving Mr Wattson fearing another organ may have been taken out during the first procedure.
The blunder has left Mr Wattson jobless as bosses at JJB Sports, where he worked as a shop assistant, didn't believe his story and sacked him.
Last night, as an internal investigation began, Mr Wattson told of the moment he realised what had happened.
'I was lying on a stretcher in terrible pain and a doctor came up to me and said that my appendix had burst,' he said.
'I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I told these people I had my appendix out just four weeks earlier but there it was on the scanner screen for all to see.
'I thought: "What the hell did they slice me open for in the first place"?
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well, that WOULD explain the falsetto voice...
Some folks just suck at the job they do.
So this is what happens when medical care is managed like the post office.
“Paul Gearing, deputy general manager for head and neck, general surgery and urology for Great Western Hospital NHS Trust, said: ‘We are unable to comment on individual cases. However, we would like to apologise if Mr Wattson felt dissatisfied with the care he received at Great Western Hospital.’ “
And they cost the man his, job as well.
He should have been more suspicious when reading the after-operation recommendations had in them “put ice on crotch”...
I remember hearing stories about guys on GM engine building lines where the line workers were told that they had to account for extra parts, so whenever they had some they would just drop them in the engine coolant cavities.
Problem solved.
self-ping!
Reminds me of the people who had the wrong leg cut off..then the doc says well we have to cut the correct one off this time...if that happened to me I would probably be hopping mad and in jail.
lol
ping
THAT was very excellent!! Thanks, I needed a good belly warmer.
You wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.
Lemme guess. Her name could be Eileen. Wait, did this story occur in Japan? Then her name may be Irene.
Nope, happened right here in the good old U.S. of A.
Her name is Peg.
Or Cherry Darling.
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