Filed under: General — Christi at 4:59 pm on Tuesday, March 27, 2007
My husband and I went for a walk around the lake in town this weekend in our wonderfully warm temperatures and I noticed something really sad. All over in the water and along the edge of the water was litter, pop cans, bottles, paper, etc. Then when I was driving home today I noticed the same in ditches there was litter everywhere. It looks horrible and sad that this is happening. Why would someone throw this out their car window (I’m assuming that is where it had to come from since we live out a ways in the country suburbs)? Why would people throw things in the lake? Save it until you get home and throw it in your own garbage, its really not that hard. I’m not a person who spouts off about things like this often but think of it besides it looking terrible now what is it doing to nature and what is it going to do in the long run?
So I’m sure you’ve heard the stories about people going in for surgery and the surgeon operated on the wrong body part. I know I had but I always thought it was one of those tall tails that didn’t happen very often until today. My co-worker’s mom went into surgery yesterday for a repair to her ACL. The doctor signed the leg that he was supposed to do surgery on and then left the nurses to prep her mom. During that time some of the nurses went on lunch break and others took over. During the middle of this somehow the nurses ended up prepping the wrong leg. The surgeon started performing surgery on the wrong leg and got in and couldn’t find anything wrong with the ACL but stated sometime the ACL starts to repair and therefore kept scraping the tendon away trying to find the problem. He finally realized that they were on the wrong leg too late and then had to replace that tendon because of all the damage caused while in there. He then called my co-workers father and told him what happened and asked if he wanted the surgeon to still fix the bad leg (the leg he was supposed to fix in the first place). They decided they might as well go ahead and fix it. She now has had both tendons replaced even though only one was supposed to be fixed.
I can’t even begin to imagine especially if the surgeon had signed the leg that he was supposed to do surgery on how you mess up like that. Sad to say, as I’m not a suing kind of person, but this is a lawsuit waiting to happen and this is why our health insurance premiums are so high. We all make mistakes believe me I make mistakes in my job time and again its just doctors have a higher risk when they make mistakes.
