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If you go to the hospital for a few stitches because you took a wack on the head, what legitimate medical reason is there for the doctors togive you a rectal exam, especially when you’re completely alert and otherwise ok? If you know the answer to this question, something tells me that Brian Persaud of …
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Wow. A few months ago, at Rhode Island Hospital, a neurosurgeon relied on his memory to know which side of a patient’s head had the problem and found out his memory wasn’t so good, and the patient died. Fast-forward to November, at the same hospital, when another neurosurgeon opens the wrong side of another patient’s …
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Wow. We have now found out that our anesthesiologist prick with too few needles didn’t use the same needle. He used several, and used them over and over and over. And that makes it sooo much better. We do have his name now, though. It’s Dr. Harvey Finkelstein.
Ok, this story makes my head spin in about 3 zillion different directions, so fast that if I don’t try and write something down, something’s gonna blow. There is an unnamed anesthesiologist in Nassau County who used the same needle and syringe for five years! Is that making your head spin? Get ready for it …
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Let’s think about this. A woman gets bitten in a religious snake-handling ritual. That’s perhaps ironic and worth a sarcastic chuckle, but if you’re a hospital staff member and she shows up for treatment, shouldn’t all chuckling stop and treatment start? If the staff at the Marymount Medical Centre in London, Kentucky, truly did what …
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God. Now, if you have to go under the knife, along with all the usual worries, it seems that operating room fires happen more than one might think! Apparently this is because of the use of pure oxygen for the patient to breathe, use of alcohol swabs, and cauterizing instruments. Anyway, you’re more likely to …
Yes I’m stealing something from Steve, but I figured it was the only way this would work. I’ve had a lot of things make me wonder why, so here they are in no particular order. Why is it that the people in a lot of pet stores can’t even manage to have basic social skills? …
Ok, explain this one to me. You decide you need cosmetic surgery. You find a couple who say they’ll do it for a reasonable rate. You are brought to their office and find that their office is actually a filthy house filled with drugs and syringes and four children running around in it and you …
Wow. This is pretty sad. In the U.S., if you have a suspicious mole you’d like looked at by a dermatologist, you’ll have to wait 3-4 weeks, but if you want Botox, you’ll get in right away. In Canada, it wasn’t clear how quickly you’d get in for Botox, but one thing was clear. If …
Here’s a helpful tip for ya. If you need neurosurgery, don’t go to Rhode Island to get it done. They have one of the highest occurrences of doctors opening the wrong side of a patient’s head. The latest cocky brain surgeon thought he’d rely on his memory instead of a CT scan, opened the wrong …
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