Oh, how dreadful. Doctors in Peru amputated a guy's foot, then checked it out and noticed they'd amputated the wrong one. So they still needed to amputate the one they meant to take in the first place.
This is a hideous accident. How terrible. I thought they went through various precautions to make sure that didn't happen. I know I would be checking and triple checking the whole thing before anything so final was done.
The family, according to the article, will sue. To which I would say, "Ya think???"
In this case they definitely have a leg to stand on.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Intensive Care Toilets
There's all kinds of ways to start this. I'm tempted to use the tried and true, "Wouldn't you think?" approach, as in "Wouldn't you think that modern technology and medical practice would have come to some obvious intersection where it would be not only feasible but demanded that the intensive care unit of your local hospital would have actual toilets by now?"
I was at the intensive care unit and it's like an outhouse there without the house! It's insane. They have one of those loan closet manual jobbies in the room, basically a bucket with a lid. There's no lining that goes in before you go. No water to soften the blow. Just a plastic bucket. Then what? Someone has to scrape it out and sanitize it? Give me a break.
I asked the nurse if that was common, why they didn't have toilets. She gave me a story about another place she worked where they also didn't have them. She seemed on the verge of making me think that was common practice, till I said I needed to go home and study that on the internet and see if it could be. At that point she backed up a little and made it clearer that it was a space issue, that they would have to have less rooms if they had actual toilets.
The whole subject nauseated me, and I was already nauseated for other reasons. I grew up going out to an outhouse and those were better than this, where they charge you thousands of dollars a day to stay.
And you can't tell me they're able to sanitize it so well that no residue and smell remains. Here's why there's so much staph infection in hospitals. They haven't yet discovered the modern toilet.
I was at the intensive care unit and it's like an outhouse there without the house! It's insane. They have one of those loan closet manual jobbies in the room, basically a bucket with a lid. There's no lining that goes in before you go. No water to soften the blow. Just a plastic bucket. Then what? Someone has to scrape it out and sanitize it? Give me a break.
I asked the nurse if that was common, why they didn't have toilets. She gave me a story about another place she worked where they also didn't have them. She seemed on the verge of making me think that was common practice, till I said I needed to go home and study that on the internet and see if it could be. At that point she backed up a little and made it clearer that it was a space issue, that they would have to have less rooms if they had actual toilets.
The whole subject nauseated me, and I was already nauseated for other reasons. I grew up going out to an outhouse and those were better than this, where they charge you thousands of dollars a day to stay.
And you can't tell me they're able to sanitize it so well that no residue and smell remains. Here's why there's so much staph infection in hospitals. They haven't yet discovered the modern toilet.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Blowing Your Nose No Good
The word they use for this is "counterintuitive." The word I use for it is "Now You Tell Me!" After decades of blowing my nose.
The ones this is bad for are the Puffs people. There's some scientists saying that blowing your nose isn't good for you. I guess just leave it stuffed up.
It sounds like something like this, that blowing your nose can cause more infection. But sneezing and coughing is OK.
But it's not all bad news, because if you are going to blow it, one doctor says the best way to do it is one nostril at a time and to take decongestants.
No word from Kleenex yet.
The ones this is bad for are the Puffs people. There's some scientists saying that blowing your nose isn't good for you. I guess just leave it stuffed up.
It sounds like something like this, that blowing your nose can cause more infection. But sneezing and coughing is OK.
But it's not all bad news, because if you are going to blow it, one doctor says the best way to do it is one nostril at a time and to take decongestants.
No word from Kleenex yet.
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