Oh Baby?
Two North Carolina surgeons were issued official “letters of concern” in January for a 2008 incident in which they performed a C-section on a woman who was not pregnant. (They relied on an intern’s confused diagnosis and followed an ultrasound with no heartbeat and several obviously failed attempts to induce labor.) [WTVD-TV (Raleigh-Durham), 4-1-10]
Can someone please tell me what’s wrong with this picture? Really? Really? No one had a clue that this woman wasn’t pregnant? Lets take a peek inside what must have gone on in that ER.
Doctor: “What’s the complaint, Richards?”
RN: “She was complaining of stomach pain before she blacked out. By the way, you were wonderful in the closet earlier,Doctor”
Doctor: “Yes, I was, I have a spectacular penis”
2nd RN: “Ummm…She’s alfully fat, maybe she’s pregnant.”
Doctor: “There’s no heartbeat on this ultrasound, damn it Richards, we need to save this baby! someone complement my ass while I run to the phone!” *runs*
2nd RN: “He does have a rather nice ass, doesn’t he?” *turns to first RN, leans on the patient* ”So what are your plans tonight.”
Doctor, rushing back: “No time for that, we need to save this baby before my 5 o’clock tee time”
I could go on, but it’s getting out of hand already don’t you think? The point is, I’ve been in enough E.R.’s to know that this could happen anywhere. I personally have been handed someone else’s prescription multiple times, had a doctor attempt to examine my foot when the problem was in my stomach (thank heaven I didn’t have these doctors). The hospital systems may be overworked, but there is no excuse for a unnessisary surgery such as this one. For fuck’s sake didn’t anyone think to do an internal on this woman? Five lousy minutes could have saved everyone, especially the woman involved a whole lot of time, pain and aggravation.
