If at First You Don't Succeed

Mark Wattson collapsed in agony and had to be rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Swindon, England. Doctors there told him his appendix had burst and they had to take it out. Wattson was angry and confused, since those same National Health Service doctors had operated on him just three weeks earlier to remove his appendix. No one seems sure exactly what they did the first time they cut him open. They did remove his appendix during the second surgery. But the incision became infected and Wattson had to be admitted to the hospital a third time. He says he also lost his job because his boss refused to believe he'd taken off time twice to have his appendix removed.