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Old 03-02-2007, 08:23 PM
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I noticed that YES on your leg too, Doody.
Made me relieved.
My daughter had to have a kidney removed last year unfortunately and about a month prior to that had ended up in hospital with septicaemia. Her surgeon was away so another one was filling in for the week. Her regular Urology specialist was around and he's the one who got this other guy to treat her in the hospital. The fill-in surgeon had never had seen my daughter before, but he had all the dozens of test results and scans etc.. So, to cut a long story short, he needed to place a stent in her left kidney, but he kept confusing himself by saying he had to make sure it was the *right* kidney. sheesh. Anyway, I was half living at the hospital with my daughter and this was a huge concern to me, even though he was only placing a stent. I figured, heck, what if he put it in the wrong kidney... anyway, he didn't, but a month or so later when she had to have the kidney and ureter removed, this played on my mind and I went over and over and over with our regular surgeon that it was the LEFT kidney. All the theatre staff were quite funny about it and they put a big X in the correct side.... but shesh, after the first mix up I was making sure even while I was waiting with her in the room before she went into theatre. I kept mentioning it. However, if they'd taken the other one out she'd have none.

so the moral of the story is really that surgeons and nursing staff and everyone else should be careful with their terminology. They should never use the word "right" when there are 2 of something in the body and one of them they're about to work on or remove.
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