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The lighter side of Health Care
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Oh, oh.... a Herman thread! This s gonna be fun
Geronimo Jim
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Those are funny! Thanks for posting.
I never got the chance to do that. I was taken out by the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu.
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Which of course reminded me of the famous dentist sketch with Tim Conway and Harvey Korman. (Apparently Harvey was laughing so hard that he wet himself.)
LVSteve
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Butcher Harris. Ah yes, wife#1 barely avoided him. In the hospital here the nurses called him "Mr Secondary Infection".
As for the golf clubs....
When you apply for a Green Card you are given a medical. Given the attitude of the doctor during mine I got the distinct impression there was a "money for old rope" gag being pulled on the INS. Maybe it was because I looked in good shape and came from the UK.
Anyway, I had to go back another day to present evidence of updated inoculations for all the childhood stuff like diphtheria. My UK proofs from the 60s were hiding from me, and still are. I rolled up on a beautiful late February morning and went to the front desk.
Me, "Hi, got those jabs done, here are the papers. Is the doctor here?"
Both girls leaned forward, looked at that wonderful sky, looked at each other, then one said, "No. He's not in this morning". Then she gave me a look that said "See the weather? Do the math". I got it, and could barely contain my mirth as I left.
Good Lord! For my three knee ops, someone has always asked me, prior to the op, while I am still conscious, "Which leg is it?," before marking the leg. Would need pretty lax procedures for a mistake like that to happen.
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Also, that seems like a pretty minuscule fine for a mistake of that magnitude.
Many years ago I had carpal tunnel surgery on my left wrist. The curvature and strain of my hand while playing double bass had taken its toll.
The surgeon came in during pre-op with a purple Sharpie. Starting at the bend of my elbow he drew a line of footprints leading to the X he had marked on my wrist.
He said it kept him batting a thousand.
The surgeon came in during pre-op with a purple Sharpie. Starting at the bend of my elbow he drew a line of footprints leading to the X he had marked on my wrist.
He said it kept him batting a thousand.
Agreed. You'd think she "wouldn't have a leg to stand on" legally, so to speak.
I sent the story to a friend who is recovering from major knee surgery and she said, "While I was still awake, my surgeon marked the correct leg and asked me to confirm that it was the correct one. "
"Act first, apologize later" might be appropriate in some cases, but not here
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Don't think it hasn't happened. My aunt is a retired nurse, and in one of her books there was a story about Andre Thornton, who was a first baseman for the Cleveland Indians back in the 1970s and 1980s. He needed knee surgery, and so he went in for the procedure. Well, guess what, the doctors operated on the wrong knee. So not only did he have to go through the risk and trauma of another knee operation (long before the arthroscopic procedure was developed) but he also had to go through rehab on two joints instead of one.
When I had my knee surgery back in 2017, I had heard enough stories about surgeons operating on the wrong body part. So the day before I took a Sharpie and wrote "Wrong Leg" on my good leg. The nurses were not amused and scrubbed it off. To his credit, my surgeon personally initialed the leg to be operated on and everything went fine.
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In the same vein, I like this commercial
In the same vein, I like this commercial
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