Posted on 08/25/2005 11:51:34 AM PDT by Borges
NEWARK, N.J. -- Here's a complication the surgeon and patient didn't expect.
An SUV rammed into a New Jersey doctor's operating room toward the end of a cataract procedure. No one was injured. But Dr. Bernard Spier says if the accident had happened moments earlier, it could have hurt the patient's eye.
Spier had removed the cataract and had just used a plunger to implant a silicone lens when the crash threw him onto the partially sedated patient Tuesday.
Police said the driver was trying to back his SUV out of a parking space outside the Northern New Jersey Eye Institute, but the 77-year-old failed to put the car into reverse.
The front end smashed through a wall and stopped just inches from doctor and patient when its back tires snagged a curb.
Spier and his staff took the patient from the room, and the driver was pulled from his Toyota by a passer-by.
Dang SUV's....never waiting their turn!
SUV's gone wild!
Those SUV's, I swear! Driving themselves into buildings, and then very late in the article being explained as driven by old men.
when SUVs attack
I could see this happening.
BUSH'S FAULT!!!!
Now here's a situation where a smaller vehicle might not have made it though the wall. I'm also surprised that an room where surgery is conducted has exterior walls. A guard rail might be in order on that wall. You can't make the world foolproof, but you should do what you can to make it idiot resistant.
Should say:
77 Year Old Male Who Probably Shouldn't Be Driving Crashes Into Operating Room During Surgery
Maybe the driver had poorly done eye surgery in the same building.
With the price of gas I'm sure the SUV wanted life support.
Soemthing must be done - for the common good!
Nah, he thought the good doc put in a drive-through window!
Seriously, We've got to start having our Seniors take Driving Qualification tests during a certain time period so the "Bad" drivers can be weeded out & the "Good" drivers keep on wheelin'.
Also...
It's Bush's Fault.
Because the older you get the better skilled driver you become thus you get the lower insurance rates. And them young whipper-snappers pay the highest of rates because their reaction skills are just to quick.
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