Brickbat: Oh, So That's Where I Left That

Army veteran Glenford Turner has sued the Veterans Administration. He says a V.A. hospital in Connecticut left a scalpel in his body after surgery. It was only discovered four years later after he suffered from long-term abdominal pain and he returned to the V.A. for treatment.
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The V.V will settle. They won't have the stomach for a court battle.
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As a veteran my experiences prevent me from being surprised by this, its just par for the course. What does continue to surprise me is how many people I know who swear by and defend it only to complain about the wait and service in the next breath.
Seriously, it's a testament to the military that they haven't marched on Washington with tank backup and air support by now.
If he'd have read his statement he would have known right off, they would have billed him for it. On the other hand they might have had him arrested for stealing it...
If only he had passed through a TSA checkpoint.
He probably did , several times, with their track record of finding weapons.
I don't think they even do metal detector scans any more. Not a single current TSA protocol would even detect something hidden in your bowels.
How do you leave a scapel in someone's body, really, how the fuck does that happen? Aren't there other people in the room, nurses, other doctors, who can point and say: "ummm, before you sew him up, might want to take your knife out of him."??? Somehow I fail to grasp how this can even happen - unless the whole surgical team is drunk, but even then..
In theory, all medical items for a surgery are counted before and after the operation, to be sure nothing is left inside the patient - - - - - -
This has been normal practice for almost ever.
Yet it still happens.
It happens. A childhood family doctor once left a surgical sponge in a patient. And heard a story from a nurse about a... wrist watch.
I'm old enough to remember the big malpractice brouhaha which led to mandatory malpractice insurance. One of the primary talking points was surgeons leaving stuff in patients.
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