I wonder how Victor Borge would have pronounced it?
Posted on 07/01/2009 1:49:47 PM PDT by Nachum
Health authorities in Sweden have decided not to punish two doctors who mistakenly stitched a 65-year-old patient’s bladder to his large intestine.
The faulty operation took place in January at Malmö University Hospital on a patient who had previously had surgery for an inflamed rectum following treatment for prostate cancer.
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Well, at least they didn’t misplace the semi-colon.
: I found it.
Where do you find this stuff, Nachum?
Boots
Good Grief!
I wonder how Victor Borge would have pronounced it?
Oh... around, here and there. Usually in dark and creepy places that mortals fear to tread....
It also helps if you point at the computer and say "shazam!".
Government tort reform?
:?
Swedish docs cleared over: misplaced colon
;^)
It’s those darned blond, blue-eyed white capitalists again, covering up for their colon(ialist) misdeeds ;-P
Sorry for the ping
Go for a colonic and get two cleaned for the price of one!
Must have been a real pain in the asterisk. He’s lucky he wasn’t left in a comma.
Will Katie Couric cover this story?
Stiched his bladder to his intestine. Talk about piss poor performance. Fortunately for the doctors they are not in deep do do.
She’ll conduct a probe as soon as she’s done probing herself.
Turns out, in real life, the stuff is not color-coded or labeled like in the medical books...
Mistakes they: happen.
Government care at its best! Evidently the parts were not properly labeled!
"Ya Sven and I worked in the girdle factory"
"Sven make the gridle, I hold them up and say, Ya Deslfiter"
People who have been to Malmo tell me that it is an absolute seething nest of radical Muslims. Like Fallujah on the Arctic Circle.
Wow, was *this* guy just not having a good day.
that was a good one.
They lost his colon while replacing his anus with an artificial one. That’s too much.
In that case you have NO business doing any kind of surgery. Sheessh!
Damn near killed him.
Wanna know something? I'm a bad doctor. I'm not boasting. I mean, who would? Just stating a fact that I've never really gotten the hang of the whole healing-the-sick thing. And don't interpret this as some sort of false modesty. No, I'm homogeneously unqualified to practice medicine in any capacity. I *really* don't have a clue. And no one could be more shocked than me that I've been allowed to rise to a position of such importance and responsibility.
I guess it all started in high school where I was a very bad science student. One day when we were supposed to be dissecting a frog, I accidentally disassembled my desk. Oh, but, you know, I was a popular kid. You know, the other students were always eager to help me out. So you know, during a test whenever I'd get that *confused* look on my face - which was invariably - well, the cheat notes would just start flying! Even the teachers would start whispering answers, you know, *ahem* mitochondria... But I didn't worry about it. I figured, how far could you coast on charm? Well, pretty far, actually!
They just offered me the job of Chief of Surgery. Apparently, I've logged more hours in surgery than any other man my age. Four thousand hours this year alone. What no one seems to have noticed that it was all with the same patient.
Oh, I want to show you something. You know what this is? Urine. Another man's urine. I ask for it, and they give it to me! I don't know what to do with it! I've got a fridge full of this stuff. I mean, I suppose I could send it out to the lab, but they'd only send back a lot of test results that I couldn't possibly understand.
The only thing I'm actually sorta good at is referrals. You know that thing where doctors send patients to other doctors. Well, I'm the king of referrals. What I do is I call the, uh, the sick person into my office, and I stare for a long time really seriously at this blank sheet of paper. Then I say, "Hmmm. I'd like you to see someone. He's a specialist in this area." (laughs) There are specialists who have their whole career based on my referrals. I am the cornerstone of a medical empire. (sighs) Well, I really should be going. I've gotta tell the family that the patient didn't make it - hardest part of being a doctor...I think!
Malmo, Sweden, is being taken over by Muslims. The article does not give the names of the doctors who botched the surgery. I wonder why? Obama care indeed.
On the one hand this mistake isn’t as hard to do as one might think. I know I guy who did this very same thing twice - and he claimed to be a colon-rectal specialist!
Without getting too technical, since there had been previous surgery in the area and everything was scarred to everything else, a bladder can look like a colon can look like a you-name-it.
Having said that there are ways to be extra-careful and not have this happen - but like I say I know a guy who famously did this twice!
It's toe-tappingly tragic."
Swedish Socialized medicine ping!
At least it wasn’t a misplaced exclamation.
I thought the story was about Colon Powell getting lost at a Democratic fund raiser for Al Franken
Swedish clinic sterilises wrong patient
“Rectum? Nearly killed ‘em!”
Don’t go that hospital. I lost 2 grandparents there, at least one of whom was a case of involuntary euthanasia.
How the heck did they get out of medical school?
Natural selection?
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