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re: Florida doctor indicted for making what I would call a pretty big mistake -
Posted on 4/14/26 at 4:05 pm to SquatchDawg
Posted on 4/14/26 at 4:05 pm to SquatchDawg
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However, would that be criminal?
Yes.
To say otherwise is to set the bar so low for medical practice as to render it completely inadequate.
Do we have fricking standards or not?
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Posted on 4/14/26 at 4:14 pm to upgrayedd
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My kid just got tubes. I must’ve had 5 different people, including the Dr., come in to ask/verify what type of procedure was to be done.
When I had a procedure done I was asked at least 5 times to verify this as well.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 4:16 pm to Eurocat
This is what happens with DEI. Oh wait he’s a white male, nevermind.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 4:22 pm to Eurocat
This sounded familiar. We discussed this on the OT when it happened. 2024 Thread
Posted on 4/14/26 at 4:29 pm to TheWalrus
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This is what happens with DEI. Oh wait he’s a white male, nevermind.
Maybe he is Native American like Elizabeth Warren.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 4:57 pm to SquatchDawg
And a little Chianti
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:00 pm to Eurocat
If this the case I'm thinking of, this guy had a long history of significant mistakes.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:01 pm to Eurocat
It’s like a real life Dr. Nick Riviera
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:12 pm to Eurocat
MD has to be on drugs. No other explanation. No way you can get through medical school and residency and make this mistake. They literally operate on the abdomen everyday for like 4 years. It’s just not possible not to know where the spleen is vs the liver. Also why didn’t his assistant speak up?
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:12 pm to Eurocat
35 - 40 years ago in hospital to have an ocular implant, cataracts. About 5 patients in beds, drips in, etc., in some kind of pre staging area. A big chalk board with the procedures scheduled that morning.
Guy comes over and asks "are you the total knee replacement"?
I respond loudly no, ocular implant. He frowns, looks at his notes and leaves the room. The total knee is on the chalk board but he didn't look further.
Nurse gives me the sleepy shot and as I'm getting groggy another person comes up and asks "are you the total knee replacement "?
Next thing I remember is waking up, can't see, afraid my leg is being operated on. Heard my doctors voice "xxxx are you awake? Almost finished".
Thank God.
It happens more than you think.
Guy comes over and asks "are you the total knee replacement"?
I respond loudly no, ocular implant. He frowns, looks at his notes and leaves the room. The total knee is on the chalk board but he didn't look further.
Nurse gives me the sleepy shot and as I'm getting groggy another person comes up and asks "are you the total knee replacement "?
Next thing I remember is waking up, can't see, afraid my leg is being operated on. Heard my doctors voice "xxxx are you awake? Almost finished".
Thank God.
It happens more than you think.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:13 pm to Eurocat
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:15 pm to Eurocat
Hell, even the scrub nurses should have been like “hey doc, sure that’s the spleen?”
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:16 pm to dietcoke7
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It happens more than you think.
Confusing one operation for another happens. Like operating on the wrong knee. But there’s no liver removal procedure. Without a liver you die.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:20 pm to upgrayedd
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I must’ve had 5 different people, including the Dr., come in to ask/verify what type of procedure was to be done.
I had total right hip replacement surgery in 2014. During pre-op prep when the incision area was being shaved, scrubbed, etc...I was asked
"Nurse --- what surgery are you having today? (Me --- Right hip replaced.)"
Nurse then hand me a felt tip pen and asked to initial my right leg just above the knee.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:21 pm to upgrayedd
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I must’ve had 5 different people, including the Dr., come in to ask/verify what type of procedure was to be done.
The only way the doctor could have thought he was supposed to remove the patient's entire liver would have been if he thought he was doing a transplant.
The lack of a replacement liver standing by would have clued him into that.
This wasn't a case of thinking he was supposed to remove something other than what he was supposed to remove.
I don't know what it was, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't that.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:23 pm to Poker_hog
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But there’s no liver removal procedure. Without a liver you die.
Yes and no. The liver can regenerate even with 20-30% of the original tissue, so partial hepatectomies are performed, as well as total hepatectomies in the case of a transplant.
But yeah, you can't just walk around with no liver.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:24 pm to Eurocat
Doctor Shaknovsky, you got some spleenin’ to do.
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:27 pm to Eurocat
Do they just give anyone a chance? How does something like this even happen?
Posted on 4/14/26 at 5:32 pm to bulletprooftiger
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