"Are you the brain specialist?"
Posted on 08/03/2010 10:48:05 AM PDT by Nachum
A 32-year-old took the needle into his hands when he tired of the wait at Sundsvall hospital in northern Sweden and sewed up the cut in his leg himself. The man was later reported to the police for his impromptu handiwork.
"It took such a long time," the man told the local Sundsvall Tidning daily.
The man incurred the deep cut when he sliced his leg on the sharp edge of a kitchen stove while he was renovating at home.
"I first went to the health clinic, but it was closed. So I rang the medical help line and they told me that it shouldn't be closed, so I went to emergency and sat there," the man named only as Jonas told the newspaper.
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Good thing he didn’t need brain surgery.
How dare he! </sarc>
"Are you the brain specialist?"
Talk about "ouch" factor...
Huh? that's a crime?
But, of course.
Geez, after hearing this story I might just go to a good
seamstress. They just charge 6 bucks to shorten a pair of pants, and I bet they would do a neater job than most emergency room hacks. ;-)
Why didn’t he just use super glue?
socialized medicine at its finest.
But, hey!
It was “free!”
Super glued together a big cut on the bottom of my foot while at the beach.. End of problem, healed perfectly...
That’s what I was wondering.
I carry super glue with me as a just-in-case. Clean the wound. Mash the edges together. Seal with super glue. That is why it was invented in the first place.
Ditto that- I’ve used superglue on some very nasty cuts: works great! Just make sure the wound is very clean first.
All you need is two bottles of whiskey. But don’t give the seamstress hers until she’s finished stitching.
I was going to just cut the rest of it off...My pop said...nope, just place that piece on the stump, and tape it on...it will grow back.
I thought he was nuts...but it worked.
Broke my hand years later...sliding into second base. I knew where I broke it...and how it was broke. People told me..."Oh you have to go the doctor...!!" I didn't go...it never hurt, and I knew they couldn't cast it. And lo and behold...it healed.
Dad was not vain, but the local ER did such a hack job, he carried scars for quite sometime after. On the way out, he told them he did better work on a horse.
I predict that veterinarians will be picking up a lot of slack as millions more entitlement cases are dumped on an already overloaded system. Their training is as rigorous as most MDs and their ability to innovate is much less restrained by the threat of lawsuits.
When Jimmy Carter was president, Dad used to joke that some veterinarian must have grafted a horse's ass where his brain belonged.
Sounds like sage advice! :-)
“But hospital staff were not as impressed by his initiative and have reported the man on suspicion of arbitrary conduct for having used hospital equipment without authorization.”
Arrogant pr..ks. Had they been at work like they were supposed to, he wouldn’t had to touch their precious little things.
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