There's an awful lot of these.
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Surgical sponges have been left inside people with such frequency that they invented a word to describe it: gossypiboma.
Want more? Another case report.
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This ain't no wussy needle or piece of gauze. We're talking about a sizable piece of medical instrumentation.
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This is what a rib approximator looks like. It is used to help close the chest following thoracic/cardiac surgery.
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Near as I can tell, a ribbon malleable retractor is just a long flat piece of bendable metal that they use to pry open your innards.
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- Swab count all correct, nurse?
- Yes, Mr Docherty.
- Hmm. If you'd been more careful last time we wouldn't have had to open him up again. I assume you remember, of course, that the count should be one higher, to include the swab we... oh dear.
I have heard this happens so they started counting everything they have at the beginning and count it again before closing. Sorry to hear that the system isn't fool proof!
Dave Briggs :~)
A surgeon should send a message to another via this method.
p.s. Chris, did you do your undergrad also at U of T? 2nd year Neuroscience here.
Ah, British comedy. That's the good stuff.
GuyatUofTalso, I did indeed do my undergrad at U of T. Double specialist in Pharmacology and Toxicology. Sweet, I got some U of T readers! I write this thing instead of studying in Gerstein all the time.