Ease up, sparky. It's not a justice system, it's a legal system. All professions deal with it.

Nu Gauze?

1.  Tie string to gauze

2.  Tie other end to door

3.  Slam door

4.  Rub dirt on it

SE, If you're close I'll buy you a beer, or a caffeine free Mountain Dew!

Half? If I get lit, I'm blastin' off baby!

I'm not suing unless I lose the arm, lol.  You know Dr. Casey Huntsman?

Come see me.  I'm trained in the arts of civil war medicine.

You don't know much about med mal and "defamation per se" in the medical field, do you? Because you certainly sound ignorant of the disruption it causes, which tends to be a more significant personal and professional bombshell than most other professions. People often initiate med mal cases in hopes of getting the jackpot judgement.

When I asked if I could have morphine or another nerve block he said, "Get both."  I replied "9mm or 45 ACP?" but was out before he responded...

I wouldn't take something like this lightly and casually like you seem to be.

 

Nah, wrong side of the state. I might take you up on the Diet Dew offer, though, since we don't have it here. I drink enough of the caffeinated stuff that it would be nice to have some unleaded to drink at night. For whatever reason, they have it in SE Idaho and nice grocery stores on the western side of St. Louis.

Slow down, there.  While we docs like to worry endlessly about malpractice lawsuits, they are lots of hurdles to jump over for a successful case.

There are four basic elements to a medical malpractice case.  They must all be present to form the basis for a claim, and an attorney must prove them all to succeed in a medical malpractice case.  The four elements are duty, breach, causation, and damages.

1) Duty means that the health care professional owes an individual a duty to act reasonably and appropriately – that he or she was responsible for providing some type of care or treatment to a patient.  This requirement is usually met whenever there is a physician-patient relationship.  The duty is the duty to act within the “standard of care” (basically meaning reasonable and appropriate care).

2) Breach means that the health care professional has breached the duty he or she owes to the patient – that they have deviated from or fallen below the standard of care.  Just as duty means that a doctor was responsible for providing reasonable care and treatment, breach means that he or she failed to do so.

3) Causation means that the health care professional’s breach of the standard of care caused or contributed to causing some harm to the patient.  A simple example would be a patient that goes to a hospital with a broken leg,  and the first doctor misses the diagnosis and tells the patient to go home.  Five minutes later, a second doctor correctly diagnoses the patient and treats the broken leg.  The first doctor misdiagnosed the patient, but it didn’t cause or contribute to causing any harm because the second doctor provided treatment within minutes.

4) Damages just means that the patient sustained harm because of the doctor’s mistake.  Think of malpractice as the medical equivalent of not paying attention and running a red light.  If someone runs a red light and doesn’t hit someone, they made a mistake but it didn’t hurt anyone.  Similarly, if a doctor makes a medical error but causes no harm to the patient, there are no damages.

Even if there is a grape-sized piece of gauze in the wound, if it is removed and the patient suffers no ill effects from it, then there are no damages.  He's not even experiencing any unnecessary pain and suffering.  

I'd have a very difficult time believing there is a large wad of gauze in there.  If this were an emergency abdominal surgery on a morbidly obese patient, you can see how that could happen, but as noted above there is an accounting of all packing/gauze used during the surgery.  They also have radiopaque threads so they can be seen on x-ray if they come up short.  I know they were also testing RFID chips in the gauze to make sure they can be detected with a wand device.  

I'm still calling dibs on all 9mm Luger ammo and women of childbearing age.

Could be, I had neck surgery about 11 years ago, about 10 days after my release I thought i had a scab on the upper fourth of my incision

I kept trying to get it and when I pulled a string came out, my wife said I was a talking doll now, a Chatty Kathy or some shit like that. We called the Dr and he said for me to come up now so I made the 55 minute drive

Got up there and he pulled the damn string out a little and cut it and said it was a suture underneath the other surface sutures and said it was no problem

I fucking thought something was wrong when I had to run up to Akron at 4:30 PM but it was nothing



 

Mine was white



 

What is the Co Pay on Laudanum?

Leave it in, get infection, lose arm, sue, never work again.

That's non formulary, so it's really expensive.

I'm laughing, OP may be seriously considering it!

Fight the power, OP.  Modern Medicine is for suckas.

I'm still waiting on pics of this "easily resolved" foreign body that was "left in the wound."

I don't know what you're talking about.  I just want to saw his arm off.  

I had a suture that was causing odd tearing feelings and bulged following removal of my gallbladder. It went away, but I did think at some point something was "wrong" and they left something behind. Certainly wasn't grape sized though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6du2B10K2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCpvTj6dAng

OP, save money on yankee anesthesia , and bring in a leather strap to bite. You'll thank GD, later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5v_QbFZDU

Self-surgery will void the warranty. WTF are you thinking, man?

I vote pictures or loss of respect.

They always want you to believe that. It's just like diy oil changes. Keep a record of the miles and receipts when you have to go to the dealership for warranty repair.

FFsparky, Azgyos, thanks for clearing that up for me.

3 pages , no pictures and the Op is probably using both hands to type. Even the mods are giving medical advice . I vote ban the OP until he gets a camera

I had a vasectomy a couple months back, blacked out on the table as he was working and he had to stop the procedure to get me back,  and then the glue separated on my scrotum and the stitch rubbed my sack as it was healing. I could see a dime size area on my sack of raw tissue.

Did I contemplate a law suit? No. Did I wish for a jackpot? No.

I kept good notes. Saw the Urologists PA, then saw the Urologist.

With my junk hanging out in the air as I lay on the table he explained what it was, that it would leave a slightly larger scar but would be hidden by the folds in my scrotum. Just keep it clean and dry so it heals.

I listened. It healed. My balls still work.

No pictures will be posted. Give the man a chance to make it right.

did you go to Gitman? If so, you're so fucked...

unless it's a ray tec it might not show up.

was this an open procedure or a scope?

undyed is common

My money is stitches

Gauze is counted and is xrayable if it is believed to be left in.  Lap sponges have long tails to hang outside so that they can't be forgotten as well.


If it's not warm, red or puss filled just wait and call your surgeons phone in your discharge papers let them know and they will talk to you over the phone and let you know if you should come in or not.

If you're really worried you should have the number for the surgeons line, you should be able to call and talk to a surgeon or resident surgeon.

Phbbtt! The things I have done with sharp kitchen knives...  Chainsaw files also (bad tooth).

Then I realized I could get scalpels from Amazon.

the lack of pictures in this thread is very concerning and disappointing...I came to this thread to see carnage and all I got was bullshit about malpractice and defamation.

I'm in Boise.  No caffeine free Mountain Dew for me.  

needs pictures!

sutures come in all flavors. sounds like it could be some Chromic or Monocryl. i dont think mono disolves well though. i dunno. just an ER nurse.

Ban OP until he cuts open a shoulder and sticks in some gauze and lets it start to heal.

We paid price of admission for a gauze stuck in wound thread. One way or another, OP must deliver.

SHOW US SOME DAMN PICTURES ALREADY!

They took an x Ray before you even left the operating room to verify placement of hardware an also see if there are any foreign bodies that they didn't intend to leave in there.

3 pages & OP still doesn't understand the necessity for posting the "before" pictures since what he is doing with the pliers is undoubtedly going to make the problem 10 times worse.

I once went to a doctor

Patrick Swayze did it too in the movie "Black Dog"

 

I have witnessed many an Arfcom foot pic over the years.   You Sir, have defeeted them all.  

Op thanks you for picking up his slack.

Be serious.

Whiskey is easily obtained. However, the patient will have to bite on a bullet, which could cause a potential exposure to a hazardous substance. I don't remember lead in the U.S.P., so that may be an issue.

All is not lost. A competent surgeon can have his arm off in three minutes. He might still have a case for emotional damages. Since the arm will be removed at the shoulder, the townspeople won't call him Lumpy and he may suffer a reduced capacity to get free liquor as a result.

IMO, a consultation with a lawyer is more important than a consultation with a physician at this point. They can amputate any time.

 

Happened to my uncle. They had to amputate his arm and his leg.