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Scissors Left in Woman After Surgery
AP ^
| Tue, Apr 20, 2004
Posted on 04/20/2004 8:24:37 AM PDT by presidio9
Australia - Eighteen months after colon surgery, a 69-year-old woman in Sydney discovered that surgeons left a pair of scissors in her abdomen.
Pat Skinner told reporters Tuesday that she suffered months of pain after doctors at Sydney's St. George Hospital removed part of her colon in May 2001.
Only after insisting on an X-ray 18 months after the operation did she find a 6.7-inch pair of surgical scissors inside her abdomen.
"I was just devastated, I could not believe what I was seeing. It was like a nightmare seeing those scissors up on the screen," Skinner told Sky News television Tuesday.
The scissors were removed in October 2002, said the hospital.
Although the mishap was reported, the operating team was not disciplined, said the hospital's chief executive, David Pearce.
Skinner was seeking legal action, local media reported late Monday, though it wasn't immediately clear why she had waited so long to press her case.
A hospital spokeswoman told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that lawyers for both sides were currently meeting and discussing the matter.
"We have put this down to human error. I've been executive director here for four years, and in that time we've done something like 40,000 operations and this is the first time this incident has occurred," Pearce told Sydney radio station 2GB Tuesday.
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KEYWORDS: chatwasteland; drnickriviera; movedtochat
1
posted on
04/20/2004 8:24:38 AM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
You should ping the Just Damn guy for this one.
2
posted on
04/20/2004 8:26:55 AM PDT
by
krb
(the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
To: mhking
ping
3
posted on
04/20/2004 8:35:29 AM PDT
by
presidio9
("See, mother, I make all things new.")
To: presidio9
That hurts just looking at it. I'd almost be afraid to move.
Things like this always amaze me. You have a whole bunch of trained professionals looking down into the incision, and nobody notices the shiney thing in there when the surgeon says, "Okay, lets close it up".
4
posted on
04/20/2004 8:39:18 AM PDT
by
Riley
To: presidio9; LibertyThug
Did they find any Junior Mints in there?
5
posted on
04/20/2004 10:30:54 AM PDT
by
Akira
(The people have spoken.....the bastards.)
To: presidio9
"Get the tools!"
"What tools?"
..."The tools we been usin' for the last ten years!"
"ohhhh, THOSE tools!" nyuk nyuk nyuk!!!
The truth is stranger than fiction....Judgie-wudgie!!!
To: presidio9
Looks like an 'Ann-a-conn-a-poonar'!
Naahh, it's more like a 'Piddle-dithitar!
"cotton."
..."Cotton!"
....."COTTON!!!"
To: presidio9; Modernman
(
Just who REALLY was the doctor?)
Hi Everybody!
To: MotleyGirl70
"The coroner? I'm so sick of that guy! See you in the operating place."
9
posted on
04/20/2004 1:03:14 PM PDT
by
Modernman
(Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde)
To: Modernman
"The coroner? I'm so sick of that guy! See you in the operating place." ROTFL!
To: MotleyGirl70
Hope the patient isn't a marathon runner. You know what they say about running with scissors.
To: Modernman
"It looks like one of those cutting things I used on her tummy."
12
posted on
04/20/2004 1:20:42 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Why the long face, John?)
To: Jeff Chandler
"Holy smokes! You need booze!"
13
posted on
04/20/2004 1:27:57 PM PDT
by
Modernman
(Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde)
To: Jeff Chandler; MotleyGirl70; Modernman
Hey, did you go to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College too?
14
posted on
04/20/2004 1:31:35 PM PDT
by
presidio9
("See, mother, I make all things new.")
To: presidio9
"If you want to have an exclusive surgery with me, Dr. Nick Riviera, dial 1-800-DOCTORB. Note the extra B is for BARGAIN"
15
posted on
04/20/2004 1:42:57 PM PDT
by
Modernman
(Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde)
To: Modernman
Come in for brain surgery and receive a free Chinese finger trap!
16
posted on
04/20/2004 1:46:06 PM PDT
by
presidio9
("See, mother, I make all things new.")
To: presidio9; Modernman; Jeff Chandler
Dr Nick:
"The knee bones' connected to the............ red thing.
The red thing's connected to the............. something.
The something's connected to my............ wrist watch.
Oh Oh!"
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