[ImNotLying]

I had a friend who went to the hospital for right knee replacement surgery. Just before he went to surgery, he had his wife take a Sharpie and write on his “left” knee, “Wrong knee Doc”. And she wrote on his belly, “right knee replacement, not a vasectomy”. The doc said after the surgery that he got a good laugh out of it and said he might make this part of his routine prep.

[zeugma]

I had a friend who went to the hospital for right knee replacement surgery. Just before he went to surgery, he had his wife take a Sharpie and write on his “left” knee, “Wrong knee Doc”. And she wrote on his belly, “right knee replacement, not a vasectomy”. The doc said after the surgery that he got a good laugh out of it and said he might make this part of his routine prep.

What you describe is actually becoming fairly common. It sounds silly, but something so silly can dramatically reduce medical misadventure.  Any doctor who would object to something like this needs to be run away from.