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Nine women are asking to join a lawsuit against a surgeon accused of branding the initials of his alma mater -- the University of Kentucky -- onto a patient's uterus during a hysterectomy. I just wondered what y'all thought about this......
http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/02/20/hysterectomy.branding.ap/index.html
Heather, thanks I didn't know what I was looking at.
I guess this is another instance where tort reform is needed. IMO
What happens next? The lawyers will be suing for pain/suffering/etc because something got biopsied?? This craziness has got to stop. No wonder costs are so high and deserving people like nurses don't get the pay raises they deserve.
Walt
I agree.....these women are looking for a way to get rich quick.
The only pain and suffering they endured is the post-surgical suffering they expected when they signed the surgery consent.
Who gives a rats behind what happened to the uterus?....was to be destroyed and never seen again, or missed for that matter.
ShandyLynnRN, BSN, RN
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I agree wholeheartedly.