Re: Africoon Surgeons Remove Brain Tumor -- From Patient's Knee

The writers wouldn't need to go to Africa for a story like this. It happens
in US hospitals as well. Surgical patients are sometimes marked with big
signs and arrows pointing out stuff like "This One!" with magic markers on
their skin to help avoid these mistakes. Health care is a profit centered
endeavor. The OR is just another part of the factory that has to run at full
speed. It can be frighteningly easy to mix up cases in a long line of
procedures that goes from very early morning to late at night in multiple
rooms day after day.

jb


"greg3347" <theodoric3@lycos.com> wrote in message
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On Dec 23, 7:31 pm, h...@home.org (Way Back Jack) wrote:
> Meanwhile, a second patient with a knee injury had his skull opened.
> Man, if the Hollywood writers wanna stay on strike, all the Hollywood
> Jews need to do is visit Mother Africa for stories that the most
> creative writer couldn't fabricate --- and they'd be true!!!!!!!
> ___________________
>
> Brain tumour sufferer has surgery on kneeFrom correspondents in Dar es
> Salaam, Tanzania
> December 24, 2007 09:05am
>
> TANZANIAN authorities say it was "gross negligence" that led to a
> mix-in which a brain tumour sufferer had his knee operated on and a
> knee patient underwent brain surgery.
>
> On November 8, surgeons at Tanzania's main Muhimbili Hospital opened
> the skull of Emmanuel Didas to remove a non-existent brain tumour
> while Emmanuel Mgaya, who had the tumour, underwent knee surgery.
>
> An health ministry official report faulted doctors and nursed for
> "gross negligence'' that led to the blunder.
>
> Mr Didas is in India having further treatment, where he is reportedly
> doing well, but Mr Mgaya died four days after a second operation.
>
> "Two consulting surgeons, three junior doctors, one anaesthetic
> doctor, two anaesthetic nurses, two theatre nurses and two ward nurses
> are to be held responsible for the blunder and will appear before the
> professional councils for disciplinary action,'' the report said
>
> http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...-23109,00.html

But the operating costs were modest.

greg