According to South Korean news agency, a pregnant patient with a 6-week-old fetus had gone to a clinic in the country's capital Seoul. A mix-up in medical charts and failure to check her identity led to the mistaken abortion.
The patient was supposed to receive a nutritional shot at the clinic. The nurse had allegedly injected her with anesthesia without confirming her identity, and the doctor had performed the abortion without checking her identity either.
What in the world does "government run" mean here? Are you implying that a "government run" facility like the VA or a NYC HHC abandons all standards? This is SOUTH Korea, not the North.
I realize this event happened in another country but isn't it a basic thing for nurses and doctors everywhere to at least ask a person his or her name?? One question would have prevented this. One question from anyone!
It is not like this does not happen in USA,how many times have they cut off wrong leg,operated on wrong side of brain (the case at Sloan Kettering comes to mind,the mother of a famous Indian actress),wrong circumcision,...Albeit the protocols here have improved ,as I noticed when my relative was having surgery ,countless persons asked him which side was to be operated on.
This is tragic, but South Korea outperforms the US as well as many other western countries in healthcare outcomes. I don’t think this would be news if it were a common occurrence.
I hope I am not breaking any TOS here. If I am I apologise in advance.
I will be frank about what SK does, read at your own choice, it is a little disturbing. (When I first learned about this year's ago I refused to believe it, it was so unimaginable , I couldn't really wrap my head around it.
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They eat cats and dogs as festive food in SK and other countries around it.
I personally boycott all countries who decide that skinning cats and dogs alive and boiling them alive is just.
Yes we do the same with lobsters! (I know we are not perfect, I and PETA are working at it).
I'm not a vegetarian, but skinning animals alive and throwing them in hot water while still alive, that's cruelty. That's not consuming animals , as an animal would "consume" you if you were in their path/on their menu. There is a difference.
Why do you expect they actually care about human life of they can't respect animal life?
Mute point.
How do you definitively know that skinning an animal and dipping in hot water in Seoul is more inhumane than chopping its head in front of its family members at an American abattoir? Either both are equally revolting or you don't know, but you are biased because of your narrow ethnocentric POV.
How do you definitively know that skinning an animal and dipping in hot water in Seoul is more inhumane than chopping its head in front of its family members at an American abattoir? Either both are equally revolting or you don't know, but you are biased because of your narrow ethnocentric POV.
Or boiling lobsters alive. Common practice in the scary, exotic West.
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On 8/1/2020 at 9:06 AM, NewRN'16 said:
I hope I am not breaking any TOS here. If I am I apologise in advance.
I will be frank about what SK does, read at your own choice, it is a little disturbing. (When I first learned about this year's ago I refused to believe it, it was so unimaginable , I couldn't really wrap my head around it.
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They eat cats and dogs as festive food in SK and other countries around it.
I personally boycott all countries who decide that skinning cats and dogs alive and boiling them alive is just.
Yes we do the same with lobsters! (I know we are not perfect, I and PETA are working at it).
I'm not a vegetarian, but skinning animals alive and throwing them in hot water while still alive, that's cruelty. That's not consuming animals , as an animal would "consume" you if you were in their path/on their menu. There is a difference.
Why do you expect they actually care about human life of they can't respect animal life?
Mute point.
Off topic but I just found I could not justify eating animals any more as an avid animal-lover. If I were to eat meat, it would be from local farms/farmers' markets, not any supermarket where the animals were likely in corporate settings in horrible/unbearable conditions before being slaughtered. Skinning/boiling alive are disgusting, but we have a long way to go right here at home.
According to South Korean news agency, a pregnant patient with a 6-week-old fetus had gone to a clinic in the country's capital Seoul. A mix-up in medical charts and failure to check her identity led to the mistaken abortion.
The patient was supposed to receive a nutritional shot at the clinic. The nurse had allegedly injected her with anesthesia without confirming her identity, and the doctor had performed the abortion without checking her identity either.
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