Great Britain: Patients leaving hospital 'with surgical instruments inside them'(Avg. 2 pts./wk)

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | April 8, 2007 | DANIEL MARTIN

[Stoat]

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.

 

[supercat]

Maybe as a cost-cutting measure they need to stop letting their equipment walk out the door.

[LasVegasMac]

"Value added".......

I'm sure The One that cannot be named will give us the answer.....

[aculeus]

[Calvin Locke]

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.

[spokeshave]

Maybe the person gets tagged as carrying metal objects next time takes a flight.

[Mount Athos]

13 inch surgical retractor left inside

[Mount Athos]

[ExTexasRedhead]

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.

[Mount Athos]

[Stoat]

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.

[Mount Athos]

[Flavius]

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

[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.

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.

 

[Mount Athos]

14 inch ribbon retractor left in 17 days

[reg45]

When she gets done with them, there won’t be any patients leaving with instruments in them. Just corpses.

[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

It'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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[SandRat]

Ain’t Socialized medicine grand. You get an operation and a take home prize.

[PAR35]

Two patients a week are leaving hospital with surgical instruments still inside them

That'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.

[Stoat]

14 inch ribbon retractor left in 17 days

Oh, that is absolutely heartbreaking.  So very sad.