Posted on 01/03/2017 9:48:03 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
“After that [1998 surgery], I went home but there was a mild but long-lasting pain, so I went to a clinic where they said I had an ulcer, so I only took pain relief medicine for it,” told Vietnam’s state VTV a day before the surgery to remove the surgical instrument, adding that he had been taking pain medication ever since.
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Ho Chi Min make things betta, you dood! Much betta!
This case was in Vietnam, but I have heard of similar stories happening here as well.
Sum Ting Wong
Didi Mau. Get it out.
Wilhelm Röntgen, please pick up the white courtesy phone!
I sometimes wonder if the doctors will examine me and find a boot up my donkey that Captain “No Slack” kicked me with.
My brother in law was injured in Vietnam. The Army surgeons left sponges from the operation in his back. It nearly crippled him.
At least they were sterilized before being left in.
I spent time on both the Sanctuary and Repose Hospital ships.
The worst event was being wounded in the head.
From the lowest sailor that works in the engine room to the two Captains that oversee the Sanctuary, the very best of the best, all working to help me and many, many others.
The volume and pace of the work, plus the intensity required.
No one I know can claim no errors!
That includes some Physicians/ Surgeons, that I’m related.
One a former Navy Ships Doc, returned from a ship reunion and very happy to report he met a sailor he had worked on many years previously had ZERO complications.
The injury was nothing close to his specialty or training.
My wife and I have each had eye surgeries, and she’s had knee surgeries. In every instance, the surgery nurse - while we’re still awake - asks us which eye (or knee) is being operated on, and taking a Sharpie, writes above that one “Yes” and the opposite one “No”.
Done for obvious reasons...
(Funny story: A day or so after her eye surgery, the writings hadn’t washed fully off. She got up in the AM to head to the 7-11 when I took a look and advised her to give her forehead a further wash or she’d get some strange stares!).
More than half of my family are medical professionals, although none are MD. They all have said the same, at various times. “Show me a Dr./Surgeon who says he never made a mistake, and I’ll show you a liar.”
This story about the scissors, obviously nobody took a simple stomach X-ray in the past.
Oh wow, I’m glad the were able to prevent that from actually happening.
Similar stories...
Yeah, happened to my daughter’s neighbor at the Mayo Clinic.
You do not expect that at the Mayo Clinic, but they do happen. Including there I guess. Probably even at Johns Hopkins as well. No place is immune.
we leave scizzas in you LONGTIME!
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