...when things go wrong, it is often the stuff of nightmares: "Alabama man dies in Destin hospital after surgeon removes wrong organ. "
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...when things go wrong, it is often the stuff of nightmares: "Alabama man dies in Destin hospital after surgeon removes wrong organ. "
The... liver?
ReplyDeleteOkay, I am no surgeon but I have bought liver in the grocery store so I know what one looks like. And if for some bizarre reason I had to operate on somebody and remove the spleen, I think I'd look at some photos of them first, just to, you know, make sure I knew what I was supposed to cut out.
It was 'laproscopic' so I guess key-hole surgery. Still, Dr shouldn't do it if he's not totally sure what he's doing.
Delete- Bruce
I wonder if his wife got to talk to that surgeon prior to the surgery? I have to believe just talking to someone that incompetant would make you have second thoughts about his skills.
ReplyDeleteI talked to a heart surgeon about a TAVR that was recommended for me. After talking 20 minutes, I left thinking "If I have it done, I want him to do it!"
I just remembered something my eye doctor said: You know what they call a doctor who graduates at the bottom of his class?
ReplyDeleteWhat?
Doctor.
Probably the same for surgeons.
I went white when I read that. In 2011, my husband contracted a severe case of streptococcal pneumonia while we were vacationing in Destin, and he went to that same hospital, Sacred Heart. They couldn't treat him so they careflighted him to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola where after a week and a half he was operated on for two cysts that had formed on the lining of his lungs, by a surgeon who stepped in because I was so unhappy with the doctor who was "treating" him. A week after that, we paid to have him careflighted back to Ohio, and I think that's the only reason he survived. Florida has a lot to recommend it, but for God's sake, don't get sick there.
ReplyDeleteWow, Rebecca, what a coincidence! I'll certainly try never to get sick near that place, if I ever find myself in the neighborhood.
DeleteI remember when yr husband had pneumonia while you were vacationing Rebecca.
Delete- Bruce
You can't have Destin without D-e-i.
ReplyDeleteSurgeon's name is Thomas Shaknovksy it says.
Delete- Bruce