Medical errors - this is the category of oversights, the results of assumptions which people perceive most painfully. How can you justify the loss of human life as a mistake? But precisely because all of us are living people, sometimes such cases occur.
Medical errors in America alone lead to more than 250 thousand deaths annually, which is about 9.5% of the total mortality.
1. Remember everything can not be forgotten - put a comma
The most common medical error is the surgical equipment forgotten and sewn inside the patient. Such an innocent error, at first glance, can lead to an absolutely deplorable outcome. Therefore, always in the operating room, total control over all inventory is maintained, including every thread or napkin. But even with such control, there are cases of negligence and negligence of health workers. So, in Dopropolye, a twenty-centimeter clamp was forgotten inside the patient during an operation to remove the appendix. Before this thing was discovered and removed, a person lived with her for 5 years.
2. Sewn and forgotten
Much worse results were obtained from doctors from Moscow. A small napkin was accidentally sewn to the small intestine, which led to a fatal outcome immediately after the operation.
3. Perestavalsya Aesculapius
Many mistakes occur due to inexperience. But how can you call an inexperienced head of a surgical department from the Novosibirsk region. Making a simple operation to remove the appendix, he managed to cut the iliac artery, which immediately led to the death of a person from profuse bleeding.
4. Caught, but not a thief
A violent patient fled from the Australian psychiatric hospital. The police immediately rushed to search. The cured patient was immediately taken back to the clinic in handcuffs. There, disguising him in a straighter shirt that was more familiar to such places, doctors cured the fugitive with psychotropic drugs from the heart. And only after a while the poor fellow managed to come out of the narcotic state and explain to his tormentors that they had caught the wrong one. The victim was a completely healthy and absolutely outsider man. Everything ended well, if you do not take into account the fact that the "psycho" has spent some time under the purifying drippers.
5. Dad can do anything
Dad even can, by someone's mistake, not become a dad. This is how it happened in the New York clinic of artificial insemination. Parents suspected something wrong after birth. The baby was absolutely not like her father, namely, unlike her parents, she was black. As it turned out as a result of the investigation conducted in the clinic and the DNA test, the tubes with the biomaterial were simply confused. As a result, the father of the long-awaited daughter became quite a stranger. If we do not take into account the moral and social aspect of the problem, we can say that everything also went more or less safely.
6. A toothpick doctor
An incredible story happened to the soldier of the British army, 25-year-old Alison Diver. When part of them were in Germany, Alison broke two front teeth. For some reason, she did not address the military dentist, but to an unfamiliar civilian medicine. Since the local anesthesia did not work for her, she agreed to the general. What was Alison's surprise when, after waking up, she did not find a doctor, but found herself holding a bag with all her teeth. And the reasons why the negligent dentist for such an act have remained unknown. The young girl had to spend a lot of time and effort on the full prosthetics of the oral cavity.
7. Left - hay, right - straw
Probably, it would be nice to use this unpretentious rule for a surgeon from the city of Tampa, Florida. After forgetting elementary knowledge, he managed to confuse and amputate 52-year-old patient Willie King instead of the right leg - the left one. The scandal could not be hushed up, and the clinic along with the surgeon lost more than a million dollars, giving money as compensation to the patient.
8. A doctor or a doctor needed an eye and an eye
As in the previous case, we are talking about elementary inattention. In 1892, ten-year-old boy Thomas Stewart, playing with a knife, injured one eye, as a result of which he lost part of his vision. The doctor helped him completely blind. Considering that the damaged eye should be removed, he mistakenly removed the boy completely healthy body. We can only guess what punishment the doctors were paying for their mistakes over a hundred years ago.
9. Irradiation and treatment
On the patient, suffering with the cancer of the tongue, even more misfortune collapsed. Jerome Parks, the patient's name, mistakenly received radiation for several days aimed at other healthy organs, in particular the brain. This resulted in a complete loss of hearing and vision of the patient. The unbearable torments of the unfortunate have been alleviated only by death.
10. The disinfected patient
Also fatal outcome was the error of Virginia Mason's nurse. She, inattentively reading the inscription on the package, made the patient inject a disinfectant solution. 69-year-old Mary McClinton has not experienced such negligence.
11. Lungs in place of the stomach
It is sad, but this case is also lethal. A 79-year-old patient from San Francisco, Eugene Riggs, suffered from a disease that did not allow him to fully eat through the esophagus. The food was planned to be injected through a special probe, which was supposed to pass through the esophagus. But the probe was mistakenly inserted not into the esophagus, but into the trachea, that is, into the lungs. Not only that the probe already interfered with normal breathing, so the food began to flow into the lungs. The error was detected quite quickly. With the removal of the remains of foreign matter from the lungs, Eugene and the doctors tried to cope for several more months. But this fight for life, he still lost.
12. Nervous doctor worse than medical error
36-year-old Nel Radonescu from Romania had to postpone a planned operation to correct the pathology of the testicles. But Dr. Naum Chomu introduced his corrections into the course of the operation. Spitfire nature of the doctor played a cruel joke with him. Accidentally hitting the urethra during the operation, the aesculapius was so angry that he cut off the sexual organ. The doctor was able to calm down, only chopping the organ with pieces. It is predictable that this surgeon, through the court, was permanently deprived of a medical license and is obliged to pay for the operation to restore the mutilated organ. At the same time, part of the skin for surgery was taken from the hand of an unbalanced doctor.
13. A boy, a girl - it does not matter, the main thing is that a person should be good
And finally, we bring the most innocuous medical errors. Perhaps, each mother can tell them a few. These are classic errors in determining the ultrasound of the sex of the unborn child. So, one doctor promised the boy, showing on the screen a large "sexual tubercle" (the definition, probably understandable only to this doctor). Another, at the 22nd week of pregnancy, again on the computer monitor, clearly saw the scrotum and proudly showed it to her parents. As you can imagine, in both cases girls were born. It would seem that the oversight is harmless, but it was such medical negligence that nearly cost the lives of two Chinese citizens. Xianliang Shen, only just becoming the father of an unwanted daughter, half beaten to death by a poor wife and committed an armed attack on a doctor who promised a son.
One can accept such excuses for medical errors as fatigue, inexperience, an accidental confluence of circumstances, inattention and many other traits inherent in a living person. But no excuse will not be so significant to make up for the loss of health or to ease the pain of losing a loved one.