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Great Britain: Patients leaving hospital 'with surgical instruments inside them'(Avg. 2 pts./wk)
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^
| April 8, 2007
| DANIEL MARTIN
Posted on 04/08/2007 7:05:53 PM PDT by Stoat
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I have no idea how these statistics compare with the USA; it's a shame such a comparison wasn't included in the article, as it would have given an interesting perspective.
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posted on
04/08/2007 7:05:56 PM PDT
by
Stoat
To: Stoat
Maybe as a cost-cutting measure they need to stop letting their equipment walk out the door.
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posted on
04/08/2007 7:07:09 PM PDT
by
supercat
(Sony delenda est.)
To: Stoat
"Value added".......
I'm sure The One that cannot be named will give us the answer.....
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posted on
04/08/2007 7:08:08 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Boy, do ya know how it feels to run 3 wide?)
To: Stoat
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posted on
04/08/2007 7:09:27 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: supercat
I watched one of those "how it's made" shows on ice cream. After each carton is filled, weighed, sealed, etc, it goes through a metal detector. Besides the obvious (ingredients), it's also a great way to check for a machine that's spitting metal before a total breakdown.
While a metal detector would require extra checking for people that are supposed to have metal in them, it wouldn't help for extra metal, non-metallic leavings, etc.
To: Calvin Locke
Maybe the person gets tagged as carrying metal objects next time takes a flight.
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posted on
04/08/2007 7:43:47 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
("Hitlery is uniting the country. Everybody hates her.")
To: spokeshave
13 inch surgical retractor left inside
To: Stoat
To: Stoat
The Brits need Hitlery to fix their health care system. When she gets done with them, there won’t be any patients leaving with instruments in them. They won’t leave at all. It’s called the Clintoon fix.
To: Stoat
To: Mount Athos
13 inch surgical retractor left inside That must have provided for some interesting, hushed chatter around the the hospital corridors, as well as more than a few red faces.
I'm hoping that the patient survived.
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posted on
04/08/2007 7:57:03 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
To: Stoat
i see a great marketing opportunity for home x ray machines with tobacco’s fame attorneys 800 #’s slapped on them for a quick call
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posted on
04/08/2007 8:02:15 PM PDT
by
Flavius
("Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
To: ExTexasRedhead
The Brits need Hitlery to fix their health care system. When she gets done with them, there wont be any patients leaving with instruments in them. They wont leave at all. Its called the Clintoon fix.The 'fix' you suggest would overwhelm the U.K. funerary industry, and our British Friends deserve far better than that. I predict that the 2008 U.S. elections will give her such a brutal bitch-slapping that nobody will need to worry about 'that woman' and any of her plans for a very long time. After the DNC realizes that they have poured several hundred million dollars down a rathole (literally speaking) I believe that they will be rather gunshy of any future tickets with a 'Clinton' name on it.
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posted on
04/08/2007 8:05:37 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
14 inch ribbon retractor left in 17 days
To: Stoat
When she gets done with them, there wont be any patients leaving with instruments in them. Just corpses.
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posted on
04/08/2007 8:13:16 PM PDT
by
reg45
To: Flavius; All
i see a great marketing opportunity for home x ray machines with tobaccos fame attorneys 800 #s slapped on them for a quick callIt's precisely that sort of innovative, out-of-the-box thinking that made America the unstoppable economic dynamo that it is.
It could be a mobile service.
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"Feeling A Strange Poke? Give Us A Friendly Call!"
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posted on
04/08/2007 8:15:09 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
Ain’t Socialized medicine grand. You get an operation and a take home prize.
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posted on
04/08/2007 8:18:42 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: Stoat
Two patients a week are leaving hospital with surgical instruments still inside themThat's the problem with socialized medicine. They need to start billing the patients for the instruments. Then the system could then to pay for competent levels of care.
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posted on
04/08/2007 8:19:57 PM PDT
by
PAR35
To: Mount Athos
14 inch ribbon retractor left in 17 daysOh, that is absolutely heartbreaking. So very sad.
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posted on
04/08/2007 8:20:03 PM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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