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On my recent visit to one of Las Vegas surgery centers last Thursday, a wonderful and polite nurse asked me which shoulder was being done today. I said the left one....10 minutes later she asked again and I repeated---left one---. Another nurse came by to help me with the hospital attire for my procedure and looked at the paperwork and said "so we will be doing your left shoulder today". Again I said yes so she took out a magic marker and wrote "NO!!!" on the right shoulder and "Yes!!!" on the left one. When the other nurse returned to get me into the operating room she again asked a third time "which shoulder is it" and I told her (now scared out of my mind)...left..left...and said it was marked by the other nurse. She rolled me over to the anesthesiologist who promptly began placing the mask over my face. While he did, the nurse asked for a fourth time "is it the left shoulder?" and the last thing I remembered was telling them my manager strategy is written on my shoulders. Thank goodness HAL's wife wasn't doing the procedure.....The moral is don't ever get too mad at HAL for not paying attention to your instructions. Sometimes he's just way to busy..Have a nice day...Bobby :D :D :D

Many years ago my grandfather was in the hospital for a sinus operation.

An orderly came in and started shaving one of his legs, Pops asks what's he doing. Answer was pretty much they do this now so they don't have to in the operating room.

Guy in next bed had gangrene in his foot and was getting his leg amputated :shock:

My wife was a nurse and she says this kind of thing happens A LOT. :shock:

Operate on Left Shoulder: Very Aggressive
Operate on Right Shoulder: Extra Conservative

It really does not happen very often that a surgery is done on the wrong patient or part of the body, but when it does, it is spectacularly bad, hence the layers of redundance in the preparatory process. I recall a few years ago, the Chairman of the Department of Opthalmology at Emory took out a good eye and left the cancer containing eye on some poor soul. He lost his position as Chairman, of course, and I shudder to think what the payout was for the guy left blind by this little oops.

My sister was to have one of her toes amputated and when a nurse was changing the dressing the first time she saw the wrong toes was amputated. My sister still had to have the toe done

Guess that guy having the eye surgury wishes someone had asked one last time "which eye was that"?

Actually, I used to work in a hospital in patient care before I went back and got my computer degrees. Towards the end we were herding people through like cattle and one seemed to blend in to the next so I can see where those nurses were coming from.

[quote:0d06df988d]... and the last thing I remembered was telling them my manager strategy is written on my shoulders.[/quote:0d06df988d]

[quote:0d06df988d]Operate on Left Shoulder: Very Aggressive
Operate on Right Shoulder: Extra Conservative[/quote:0d06df988d]

LOL :lol:

But seriously, Bobby, if you have any question about your shoulder surgery or rehabilitation, let me know. The best way to get information would be to post your situation on my institute's [url=http://asmiforum.proboards21.com/]sports medicine forum[/url], and I'll get you the answers you need.

- Glenn F
(The Biomechanical Man)

Just saw this for the first time, good stuff, and a good link from Glenn.