Doctor messed up

[Rye Miles #13621]

You can’t make this stuff up!

 

https://www.waff.com/2024/09/05/muscle-shoals-man-dies-after-doctor-florida-removes-wrong-organ/

[Cypress Sun]

 

I read that yesterday. That the "doctor" still had his credentials after serious prior mistakes (wrong organ removal) is unbelievable.

I hope that his wife takes everyone involved to the cleaners and that this so-called "doctor" has his license revoked permanently and barred from ever working in any medical field again, including veterinary work.

[Rip Snorter]

Granted, every thing in there is red, but Liver and Spleen - horrifying.

[Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381]

Wow! The liver and spleen are on opposite sides of the body.

 

 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

3 minutes ago, Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 said:

Wow! The liver and spleen are on opposite sides of the body.

 

 

And very different in appearance.

[Rye Miles #13621]

1 hour ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

I read that yesterday. That the "doctor" still had his credentials after serious prior mistakes (wrong organ removal) is unbelievable.

I hope that his wife takes everyone involved to the cleaners and that this so-called "doctor" has his license revoked permanently and barred from ever working in any medical field again, including veterinary work.

He killed the guy! I say life in prison !

[Pat Riot]

I’m sure that if a doctor did that to my spouse that doctor would never practice medicine again. 
There is no excuse for that. None. 

[J-BAR #18287]

1 hour ago, Cypress Sun said:

...including veterinary work.

It's harder to get into Veterinary College than it is to get into human Medical School.

 

I don't know of any state that would grant a license to practice veterinary medicine without having graduated from a veterinary college, and this clown would never be admitted.  I think your pets and livestock won't be at risk from him.

 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

6 hours ago, Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381 said:

Wow! The liver and spleen are on opposite sides of the body.

 

 

I'da thought they'd both be on the inside .....  🙃

[Subdeacon Joe]

"According to NBC, the hospital is investigating the matter."

 

Right. More like,  "Hospital is scrambling to cover its butt."

[Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381]

14 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

And very different in appearance.

 

Very true, The spleen looks like a miniature catcher's mitt, and more purple than the brownish red liver.

 

The widow is soon to come into a large sum of money...

 

 

[bgavin]

Remember:  50% of all doctors (and lawyers) graduate in the Bottom Half of their class.
And are still called "doctor" and "esquire".

There is a reason why they mark you with Sharpie with a note "cut here".
Any nurse will tell you her first responsibility is keeping the doctor from killing her patient.

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

5 hours ago, bgavin said:

Remember:  50% of all doctors (and lawyers) graduate in the Bottom Half of their class.
And are still called "doctor" and "esquire".

There is a reason why they mark you with Sharpie with a note "cut here".
Any nurse will tell you her first responsibility is keeping the doctor from killing her patient.

bgavin speaks truth indeed ... more nurses than one have told me that very thing!

[punxsutawneypete]

12 hours ago, bgavin said:

There is a reason why they mark you with Sharpie with a note "cut here".

I had arthroscopic knee surgery back in 2017.    Having remembered when Cleveland Indians first baseman Andre Thornton had surgery performed on the wrong knee (an incident documented in one of my aunt's [a practicing nurse] textbooks) I wasn't going to take any chances.  I took a Sharpie and wrote "WRONG LEG" on my good leg before I went to the hospital.  One of the nurses was not amused and scrubbed off what I wrote.  I was vindicated when the surgeon came to me before the operation and HE initialed my leg that was to be operated on.

[MizPete]

IDK.  A very good urologist of my acquaintance almost removed the wrong kidney.  The OR staff prepped the wrong side.