What's the Difference Between an Auto Mechanic and a Medical
Surgeon?
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What's the Difference Between an Auto Mechanic and a Medical
Surgeon?
By Stephen Bucaro
Doctors in West Virginia refused to treat patients because of
rising medical malpractice insurance premiums. A majority of
doctors in most other states are cutting back on patient care
because of rising malpractice insurance premiums. I have a
riddle for those doctors: What's the difference between an auto
mechanic and a medical surgeon? Answer: An auto mechanic doesn't
leave his tools inside the object he worked on!
A study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and
Harvard School of Public Health found that surgeons ignore the
standard practice of counting the surgical tools before and
after an operation, resulting in tools being left inside the
bodies of 1,500 people each year. The actual number of people
with surgical tools left inside their bodies is much higher
because hospitals are not required to report mistakes.
Surgeons leave clamps, electrodes, sponges and other surgical
tools inside the bodies of people. In several cases, 11 inch
metal retractors where left inside people. Sometimes the people
didn't know that a surgical tool had been left inside their
body. Many of the tools where found in later surgeries.
The surgical tools left inside people often cause obstructions,
tissue damage, or cause infections. The individuals are then
required to endure additional surgery to remove the surgical
tools. Claiming "reasons of privacy", researchers withheld
information about people that died from complications caused by
surgical tools left inside their bodies.
Maybe medical malpractice insurance premiums wouldn't be so high
if the doctors stayed awake and alert during surgery, or if they
at least followed the standard medical practice of counting the
surgical tools before and after an operation. I think the
doctors are correct to refuse to treat patients. If they don't
treat any patients, they can't leave their surgical tools inside
peoples bodies!
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