Lawsuit accuses surgeon of leaving instrument in patient's uterus

Times Leader/AP Wire ^ | 1/19/2005

[rocksblues]

Now that had to hurt!

[avg_freeper]

They should of done a FOD walk.

[mitchbert]

"Surgery is extremely complex these days," Conner said. "Instrument sets are extremely complex. They have large numbers of instruments on them."

I guess counting the pieces before and after the procedure never occurred to them...

[RockinRight]

Bizzare...and scary.

[PeterFinn]

"Lawsuit accuses surgeon of leaving instrument in patient's uterus"

I didn't know you could get a tenor sax in there.

[Righter-than-Rush]

Sue the pants off that Doctor! How can the Dr. defend leaving a scapel inside a woman's womb? Million dollar judgement! Loss of licensure! New career... metal detectors?

[Emmett McCarthy]

So many things come to mind, but I'd better keep them to myself. I will check back later, though, to see if the barbecue tongs turned up.

[Righter-than-Rush]

>>I didn't know you could get a tenor sax in there.>>

Depends on the woman.

[ErnBatavia]

I wonder if Dr. Owusu went to the University of Nigeria Medical Skool...

[Capagrl]

Geisinger at Danville is an amazing hospital and absolutely a facility that central PA is fortunate to have. They saved my son's life when he was 9 months old and I am eternally grateful that they were there for us.

Mistakes DO happen - it's only human. I don't know that putting pressure on hospitals and doctors to perform at levels virtually impossible to achieve is very fair. I mean, the woman is OK, right? No information about sustained long-term bleeding or needing to have a full hysterectomy, right?

[Hank Rearden]

A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Health said there are no state requirements regarding instrument counts in operating rooms.

Ah-hah! The origin of the problem. A lack of laws.

It's a fundamental flaw of our society - there just aren't enough laws to make life perfect. Yet.

[Dat Mon]

Yo Bud...hol' ma scalpel...

[RockinRight]

No comment...

[KMC1]

4 inch instrument? Good grief - where'd this guy get his medical license

[montag813]

What is she suing to get? They said they were sorry. Two days of pain and excreting a 4" instrument from your vagina. Yes, it sucks. But will some idiot jury give her $20 million?

[reagan_fanatic]

Two days later, she went to the bathroom, and the instrument emerged from her vagina

Did the Doctor charge her with theft?

[montag813]

Geisinger at Danville is an amazing hospital and absolutely a facility that central PA is fortunate to have. They saved my son's life when he was 9 months old and I am eternally grateful that they were there for us.

Too bad...who cares how many lives were saved...a woman was inconvenienced for two entire days...shut them down and liquidate all assets to give to her!

[An American In Dairyland]

Mistakes DO happen - it's only human.

Of course they do and sometimes (like this one fortunately) no real harm seemed to have been done. In this case the problem I'm having is the doctor and hospital's manner of dealing with a mistake that was obviously made. They seem to be trying to deny the mistake or whitewash it rather than at the very least apologizing and looking for ways to make sure this type of mistake doesn't happen again.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Lawsuit accuses surgeon of leaving instrument in patient's uterus

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