I’m not board certified or anything, but isn’t there a subject docotrs are supposed to be acquainted with called anatomy?
And as a result, don’t we generally feel that doctors - especially surgeons - should be able to tell the difference between the shape of a gall bladder, and the shape of a kidney?
Or do surgeons routinely slice people open and cry: “wish me luck”!?
I was thinking that too, they’re different shapes and have different textures, at least the ones from my anatomy class did.
(Granted, that was a few years ago)
You’re assuming this was an anatomically normal kidney. I’m guessing that’s very unlikely given its location. Doing this sort of operation, you’d have to dig through an entire layer of tissue to even make it back to the kidneys in your typical patient. Somethng went horribly anatomically wrong here—and not just in the sense that something didn’t migrate as it should.
In any case, yeah, a kidney and a gallbladder are quite distinct if they’re anatomically normal and not covered in scar tissue.