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tkkfan · 04-20-2004, 09:42 AM

I know this happens, but I DO NOT want to hear about it!

edit: added article text -MSD
scissors

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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - A Sydney woman demanded an explanation Tuesday from a hospital where a pair of scissors were left in her abdomen after surgery and said she planned to sue.

Pat Skinner, 69, had part of her colon removed at Sydney's St. George Hospital in May 2001. But she said that she continued to suffer intense pain in her abdomen for months after the operation.

Eventually, she demanded doctors x-ray her abdomen. They did and discovered the 6.7-inch pair of scissors, which were removed in October 2002.

"It was like a nightmare seeing those scissors up on the screen," Skinner told Sky News television Tuesday. "It was very, very traumatic and extremely painful."

The hospital has apologized to Skinner for the accident, but Tuesday she said plans to take legal action, although she did not provide any details.

A hospital spokeswoman told The Associated Press that lawyers for both sides were currently meeting and discussing the matter.

The incident was reported to the Health Care Complaints Commission, but no disciplinary action was taken against the surgeon or the four other staffers who operated on Skinner, said the hospital's chief executive, David Pearce.

"Basically, the advice to ... Mrs. Skinner is that we couldn't explain how a pair of 6.7-inch scissors was left in her abdomen," Pearce told Sydney radio station 2GB Tuesday.

"We have put this down to human error. I've been executive director here for four years, and in that time we've done something like 40,000 operations and this is the first time this incident has occurred."

jujueye · 04-20-2004, 02:16 PM

I do! Information can make us smarter consumers. Personally, I would avoid this doctor (and/or hospital) if I knew of this kind of lazy-ass procedure!

Arm yourself!

qtpye4u84 · 04-20-2004, 02:23 PM

I am glad she wanted to sue she could have cut up her insides or some thing really bad.

sadistikdreams · 04-20-2004, 06:48 PM

Hmmm... Pat Scissor-Abdomen.
Yowzah! I'm going straight to hell.

cherriesue · 04-20-2004, 07:42 PM

and how much are we paying these doctors?

panbert · 04-20-2004, 08:04 PM

The thing that gets me is that the doctor and the hospital have refused to actually acknowledge the error and apologise. This whole business of going through lawyers is just so impersonal, and so irresponsible.
Is "sorry" really so hard to say nowadays?

jujueye · 04-21-2004, 12:20 PM

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Originally posted by panbert
The thing that gets me is that the doctor and the hospital have refused to actually acknowledge the error and apologise. This whole business of going through lawyers is just so impersonal, and so irresponsible.
Is "sorry" really so hard to say nowadays?

Yes, it actually is. The cost of malpractice insurance for doctors is sky-high right now, and for good reason (this being one of them.) Any lawyer representing a doc with this problem would liklely want you to be able to continue your craft (yeah right....) so apologizing is admitting to the, uhm, crime. Don't admit and force the accusor to prove it. If they do prove it, settle out of court. yeah. It blows.

fuzyfuzer · 04-21-2004, 05:41 PM

^^^

you know this is one of the cases that should and has to be filled for malpractice but the true cases are not the ones that are making the insurence so high

04-21-2004, 06:31 PM

not the first time it's happened- seen a show on tv about all things they have found in people's bodies.........

asudevil83 · 04-25-2004, 12:39 AM

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Originally posted by qtpye4u84
I am glad she wanted to sue she could have cut up her insides or some thing really bad.

or even worse...their are stories of crazy consequences from stuff left in the body. i read one story where a clamp was left inside this one guy's body. after a month or so, he went back to the hospital where they found that bacteria had started growing where the clamp was and was slowly eating his insides. he went on a shitload of antibiodics and stuff and ended up with pretty bad abdominal scars.

Blackthorn · 04-25-2004, 02:00 PM

The best surgery to have is the one you never have. It's just not safe.

04-20-2004, 02:23 PM	#3 (permalink)
qtpye4u84 Flavor+noodles Location: oregon	I am glad she wanted to sue she could have cut up her insides or some thing really bad. __________________ The QTpie

04-20-2004, 06:48 PM	#4 (permalink)
sadistikdreams lonely rolling star Location: Seattle.	Hmmm... Pat Scissor-Abdomen. Yowzah! I'm going straight to hell. __________________ "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." -Lin Yutang hearts, by d.a.

04-20-2004, 07:42 PM	#5 (permalink)
cherriesue Insane Location: trying to avoid being groped	and how much are we paying these doctors? __________________ we die only once and for such a long time

04-21-2004, 05:41 PM	#8 (permalink)
fuzyfuzer Insane Location: st. louis	^^^ you know this is one of the cases that should and has to be filled for malpractice but the true cases are not the ones that are making the insurence so high __________________ "The difference between commiment and involvment is like a ham and egg breakfast the chicken was involved but the pig was commited" "Thrice happy is the nation that has a glorious history. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

04-25-2004, 02:00 PM	#11 (permalink)
Blackthorn Beware the Mad Irish Location: Wish I was on the N17...	The best surgery to have is the one you never have. It's just not safe. __________________ What are you willing to give up in order to get what you want?

04-20-2004, 02:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
jujueye alpaca lunch for the trip Location: in my computer	I do! Information can make us smarter consumers. Personally, I would avoid this doctor (and/or hospital) if I knew of this kind of lazy-ass procedure! Arm yourself!

04-20-2004, 08:04 PM	#6 (permalink)
panbert Crazy	The thing that gets me is that the doctor and the hospital have refused to actually acknowledge the error and apologise. This whole business of going through lawyers is just so impersonal, and so irresponsible. Is "sorry" really so hard to say nowadays?

04-21-2004, 06:31 PM	#9 (permalink)
:::OshnSoul::: Guest	not the first time it's happened- seen a show on tv about all things they have found in people's bodies.........