It’s a Towel, Not a Tumor
Yet another entry in the scary-but-true files. A Japanese man went into surgery to get a tumor removed. The good news: they got the tumor and it’s not cancer. The bad news: it was a towel left behind from another surgery 25 years ago.
The towel was left over from an ulcer surgery back in 1983. The guy is now 49, which means that he’s been carrying that cloth inside of him for half his life. No wonder he was suffering from abdominal pain!
Wouldn’t that just tick you off? The hospital is scurrying to talk to the man about compensation. Gee, you think? The man has no plans to sue the hospital. He’s a little more generous than we would be. At the very least, we would be demanding that they take care of every last medical bill AND pay us back for the previous surgeries. At the least.
We’re not saying that people should be sue-happy. However, incompetence like this should be highlighted somehow. And hopefully it hasn’t happened since then. Yeesh. And hospitals wonder why people are leery of trusting them. Sure, it doesn’t happen every day. But it does happen a little too often for our taste.
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And this is why guys like me have to have a limb falling off before we’ll think about going to the hospital.
Even then, I would probably try duct tape first. I can’t believe he’s not suing. I would own myself a hospital after that.
No kidding. I’m not sue-happy, but if anything deserves it, this does.