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CallaFirestormBW -> RE: Bathtub caulk butt jobs land N.J. women in hospital" (3/12/2010 1:21:12 PM)
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ORIGINAL: flcouple2009
How stupid do you have to be, to let some inject caulk in your butt.
The thing is, the article says nothing about whether the doctor(s) in question lied about what kind of implant they'd be using, fully explained the procedure, or about anything else. Once you're under, what the doctors do to you is completely out of your control. We don't know, at this point, whether it was stupidity or deceit on the part of the practitioners.
How many people know how to check a doctor's medical license before they undergo treatment or a procedure? How many people know what to look for, and what questions to ask? How many people know what the implant for this procedure is supposed to look like, or, for those getting injected silicone, what that silicone looks like, how it is transported, and the tools used to inject it? How many people ask to -see- the tools and materials that will be used during their procedure? And even if they do, what guarantee do you have, once you're under anesthesia, that the things you were shown are going to be what is actually -used- (and that it has been properly prepared, sterilized, etc.)?
I've worked in hospitals since I was 15 years old, and you would be appalled at the things that go on behind those nice, heavy metal doors, in those nice, sterile operating rooms.
I am a -very- intelligent person. I -do- know how to check a medical license, and have to do it daily for work, but even so, I've encountered situations where doctors were in the middle of being censured, but because the censure wasn't resolved yet, it didn't show up on the check on their licenses, or their licenses had not yet been revoked and they were still practicing!!! I've also had doctors tell me they were going to do one thing (a VBG) and had them do something else entirely (a VBG, gall-bladder excision, and liver segmentation/excision) -- this happened with a well-respected, licensed surgeon, in a military teaching hospital, so that a new surgeon-in-training could get some 'hands-on' practice!!! The surgeon told me about it 3 days after I regained consciousness, because I asked about the strange scars on my stomach, and requested a post-operative CAT scan for the pain in my right rib-cage region that I was concerned wasn't related to my VBG (I had already been working for 2 years as a surgical trauma tech -- so I sort of knew where referred pain showed up for different injuries, and what warning signs to look for for complications -- I thought I was having a severe reaction to the VBG!).
I know someone else (as in, I lived in the same household with her when this was going on) who went in to get a total hysterectomy/cervicotomy/oophrectomy to resolve rampant endometriosis, only to have the doctor leave not ONLY her cervix, but a 40mm diameter portion of the lower segment of her uterus intact -- 6 years after her "hysterectomy", she still has periods. And because she discussed it with her doctor, and he assured her that it was "normal" for her to continued to have monthly flows for a while, she didn't think to seek out another doctor for her continued problems. It wasn't until I went in for -my- total (with a different doctor) and she saw how different our courses of recovery and post-operative symptoms were that she finally went to MY doctor... only to be told that they can't do a second surgery to correct the mistakes of the -first- surgery, because there are too many adhesions to remove the remaining segment of the uterus now.
Without knowing the full story, there is no way to tell how "stupid" these women were, or how much of their own complicity brought them to their hospitalization.
Calla
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