This is pretty standard operating (ha!) procedure these days. You and your doctor sign the body part being worked on.
You could just write “not this uterus—>” on everyone else.
Yup. Did that with my shoulder and hip.
Damn I’m old.
Almost everybody has auto-correct these days, so typos should be assumed somewhat unlikely. On the other hand, it learns frequently used words, so I can start CFEFWSG or jehovallah and it will autocomplete them for me. My mistakes are occasionally not but mostly are deliberate.
It’s fricking freezing in here Mr. Bigglesworth.
“This is the knee we’re going to operate on. It says “ON” right there.”
Has anyone ever developed post-op complications from an incision contaminated with Sharpie ink?
Don’t take the chance! Get a tattoo!
Actually, there are specialized pens for use in marking the surgical site. There’s also a whole process where the doctor visits the patient pre-surgery, introduces themselves, and confirms via multiple identifiers (name, birthdate, etc) that they are speaking to the right person.
Sh also dissuaded me from drawing two arrows and writing “these breasts” on my sternum.
But that doesn’t eliminate the risk of the surgeon putting the hip replacement in your shoulder.
The article says
Two freaking days?
How long does it take you to sober up after a bender?
I know this isn’t a firearms thread, but ISTM this would make shooting from the hip significantly more common.
Hence the exclamation point.
“Has this knee been iONized in some way? Is there some kind of chemistry thing we need to do first?”
Was the surgeon Spanish?
I had cataract surgery a few weeks ago and they put a spot over the eye and then a big x on the eyebrow.
17 year old high school player arrested after he punched a player from the other team in the handshake line after the game and knocked him unconscious.
Munitions experts called to an English hospital after a patient was admitted with a world war II mortar up his butt. He tripped and fell on it. Yeah, right.
Spoiler:
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He’d been walking around with it up his butt since 1944!
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And now you know…the rest of the story. Page two!
People trip and fall on hard, throbbing cylinders with their anuses way more often than you think.