I’m not a surgeon, but a vet tech. Heard a story where a dog had came in, coughing, wrenching, and having various cardiovascular problems. However, any blood tests or x rays or anything of the sort came back normal. It was so bad that they were planning to put this poor dog down. Out of desperation, an exploratory surgery was done. When they got to the heart, they found a surgical rag wrapped around it. This dog had gotten abdominal surgery YEARS ago, and the surgeon had left this rag inside the dog. It had apparently migrated up into the thoracic cavity and gotten itself wrapped in the heart. Edit: Forgot to mention that the dog was perfectly fine after they removed the rag
That's awesome they had a success operation and found the cause. I'm assuming the dog lived if they found the issue but idk how hard removing a rag from a heart would be.
Me as patient. About 25 years ago. Went to my local hospital emergency with severe abdominal pain. Doctor who saw me gave laxative suppositories insisting it was constipation. Kept insisting was constipation. On a gurney overnight, not actually admitted as such. Different doctor sees me in the morning, books me for surgery asap. Luckily a surgeon had had a cancellation that morning. My appendix were infected and on the verge of rupturing. If the first doctor had his way I'd be dead. Incredibly thankful for the second doctor that saw me. Wish I'd been able to see that second doctor again to say thank you. Really hope he has had a long and positive career since.
I was almost the lady with sepsis. Had an emergency c-section, in the rush to get the baby out they nicked my bladder and lower intestine. I honestly felt fine, just light headed which I thought was normal and occasional stomach upset which I also thought was normal having never had any surgery before. Friend forced me to go to the Er, I was mysteriously missing over 1/4 of my blood and had multiple organ infections verging on sepsis. Lucky for me 1 month in the hospital on iV antibiotics and several blood transfusions later I was good to go. Still can’t believe I was that sick and somehow convinced myself it was just normal post-op.
Dear GOD. We women are so ignored by medical personnel that we're taught from a young age that misery and agony are somehow normal. When in reality we're just horribly ignored. I'm glad you're here, girl. Godspeed to you and your baby.
Story 11 is terrifying to me as someone who has had a laparoscopic appendectomy!!! Imagine going in for a life-saving yet routine and minimally invasive operation and never coming back! That poor person and their family! And the poor surgeons too, it sounds like they were all very competent and caring and it was just a horrible accident 😢
I had laparoscopic appendectomy and an infection last year after my appendix burst. I spent almost 5 days in the hospital. Luckily, I had a great team working on me but this story just made me realize that anything could have happened and it could have turned out much worse!
For as long as I could remember, I've always had a fear of surgery and these stories are why. I remember being 10 and getting my appendix removed, and 13 when I broke my arm in two places and my wrist in the same fall. Every time I go into surgery, no matter how healthy I am, I always have that fear of "What if the anaesthetist accidentally OD's me on anaesthetic? What if something goes wrong and I don't wake up?" every time.
Story 7 reminds me so much of something that happened to my great aunt a couple of months ago. She was at Las Vegas because she’s a gambler. Btw we are Canadian. We live in Canada and typically have free healthcare. Anyways, she slipped or something, broke a hip and cracked her skull. She’s fine, she’s still breathing but holy shit is the medical system in the states corrupt. So, we have this 85 year old who slipped, broke a hip and bonked her head a little too hard. Instead of calling my mom, who normally is I charge of medical decisions in our family, they let an elderly person with a brain injury make decisions. What we would’ve wanted them to do is make sure she’d survive a flight home and fly her to a hospital like we would’ve done here. Nope, she got multiple surgeries and it cost $113,000 USD. Close to $200,000 CAD. We had to sell a good chunk of land from one of the families ranches just to pay the bill. People have emergency contacts for a reason, if you work at a hospital and a foreign patient comes in please call it if they have one. If they can make it back to their country, send them back. Don’t risk an entire family’s livelihood or financial stability so your hospital can make a quick buck. Send them where they can be comfortable and don’t have to worry about how an accident will affect their bloodline.
Sounds about par. I'm sorry you guys had to go through that. (HUG) I'm glad your aunt is OK! Next time she travels, if she comes back, GET TRAVEL INSURANCE. You probably could have talked down the cost, but I doubt they gave you a chance.
@@SewardWriter we do have some travel insurance but it definitely does not cover that cost. We barely have $200,000 on hand and the farmland only covered part of it. Anyways, my great aunt will probably get arrested if she steps foot in the US because we simply cannot pay the bills. It’s a shitty situation but as long as she stays here the US can’t do anything about it. They aren’t just gonna reach out to the RCMP to arrest an elderly woman because her and her family can’t pay off bills that cost as much as a house.
7:00 bro the path was RIGHT THERE, what are you DOING. (love your videos, the minecraft in the background is sometimes unintentionally hilarious though.)
story 5 reminds me. I am not a vet, but got to observe a vet in for the day to do 2 surgeries. A spay for a cat and a mastectomy for a dog. First up was the spay, and after removing one ovary the vet had been ready to close up, so I asked if this cat somehow only had one ovary. This led to the vet being able to fix what would have been a pretty big mistake, and removed the second ovary as well before closing up. The mastectomy went fine though. But this is why I can understand it when vet techs say that they are the baby sitters of the actual vets.
Last one. I inherited my father’s curse of extra molar roots and also, they either curled in or splayed out. And the residual of inch long eye teeth, just extra long roots. (Some of my great uncles looked like vampires). I had to face having most of my teeth out via oral surgery and how things were sewn up, don’t ask. 11 months of bone spurs. I have a specimen cup of weird trashed teeth (20) and a smile in a glass, phantom toothaches are real. Sympathy to anyone that has a weird molar and the are doing root canal and miss one…(been there twice)
I got splayed out and curly roots too, plus some extra roots, but Im also missing the bone between roots and sinuses, just easily pierced membrane, so my first ever root canal was a horror show. I was in serious pain, but the ancient doc claimed that this tooth is already dead, no numbing needed. It wasnt, the dentists assistant (visibly upset by this turn of events) held me down by my shoulders, while I cried so much I feared Ill drown in my own snot! And since she didnt bother to look at my x-rays before she started this torture session, she bored right thru into my sinus, giving me yearly sinus infections at age 16. Ill get one if I cry too hard, get really runny nose or just get the flu.. Next day Im really sick, half of my face is swollen and the pressure is so bad I cant lower my head one bit. I go back, the ancient lady argues with me (theres nothing wrong, Im just imagining it), only after I explain I taste the saline wash in my snot, she gives up and looks at the x-rays. No apologies, but puts me on penicillin. Oh yeah, she still claimed the tooth was dead, the nerve pain was all in my head. It took me 5 years to go back to dentist chair after that experience, now Im a fear patient, I wasnt before. Another dentist ripped a nice chunk out of my mandible, because she also assumed Im just another everyday extraction patient. I guess the roots were infused to the jaw bone, the crunch it made was spectacular. Got my jaw locked shut for the first time too, great. To top it all off, novocaine cant be used on the inside of my mouth, my nerves there are connected, its rare like the missing bone. Ive had real nice feelings of being choked by my own throat because of it, twice. Now I tell all my dentists about my peculiar teeth, I dont trust them to read my file anymore, Im too old to go thru any of it again. Im sure some new rarity will show up, tho.
@@janemiettinen5176 I commensurate. I have a lot of scar tissue so getting anything dead was difficult. Plus I metabolize lidocaine very quickly. Most of the time it wouldn’t hold long enough to finish a procedure. My wisdom tooth extraction, the specialist was young, skilled and filling n in for the regular one. He had difficulties all day and was running long by just after lunch. He zipped through 3 shots and took off. I waited for him to show again and and asked him when he was going to numb me up? I should be ready. I carefully pointed out three tiny local isolated spots. That are already thawing because he used lidocaine. I touched and pointed my way through the 11 shots I would need. He read my file, same was listed inside the flap. A flat deer in headlights OH. He loaded up the other stuff and started the sequence. I told him20-30. He finally returned and we began. My mouth is small and the arches are too small to hold the teeth properly, due to the freakish amounts of sugar my mother craved while carrying me. (Documented in the Inuit when they put them into reservations and villages in the 1960’s.) trying to to use clamps and dams- don’t fit, painful as hades, and constantly choking to the point of reflex vomiting. He managed to get in back there and get the wisdom tooth dug out. When he broke it to extract it I thought he was going to break my jaw. Got the aftermath waded through. Spouse was late to pick me up, so I had completely thawed, and I had to navigate my spouse to a pharmacy that was still open to get painkiller prescription and navigate us home. About six hours after I thawed to be able to take something to cope. Pain was a 9…
[I am NOT a medical professional] The "string" is most likely wound 'packing', a thin gauze, usually treated, used as a wick for oozing fluids to leave a pocket-type wound as it heals & I believe is medical standard.
if it was left there intentionally i don't think the doctor would've been so quick to bring her back in and have it removed. they would've just explained to the family what it was there for.
Only tangentially related to your comments at the end there, but my doctor once told me some variant of "Never seen that before" because my vitamin B12 was *completely unreadable* in my blood tests one day, essentially so close to zero that I should not have been *alive* let alone conscious or perfectly lucid. "...Huh." was all I had to say at the time, because I didn't know how dangerous that was until this year when I was reading a story about a guy who very nearly died due to B12 deficiency.
Unfortunately, simple mistakes on the operating table will 100% guarantee a medical malpractice lawsuit. Everything must be perfect in healthcare, meaning if someone dies, it'll all be your fault, and that is a burden you must live with for the rest of your life. People will hate you if a single minor error occurs and everything unravels to Hell in a hand basket. That's why you cannot make mistakes as a surgeon. Ever.
Not a surgeon, not a patient, but this story involves my dad. He needed to shoulder surgery to get screws put in (not sure why, I'm guessing some military injury). For context, he's a big guy. 6'5" and has always been at least somewhat muscular. The surgeons miscalculated how much anesthetic he'd need for the surgery, and he woke up halfway through. While he was awake, he couldn't move, but he could feel the pain of the surgery. After a few agonizing minutes, he managed to let out a groan while trying to scream. The surgeons heard it and managed to get him some more anesthetic. He's never been religious, but at that moment he thought he was in Hell
I'm not showing this to my mom. She barely survived the hospital getting her pacemaker the first time. (If not for a particular intern, she'd be with my dad right now. Dad's not here any more.)
Last story: We're all a bit weird. I have an extra artery running into one of my kidneys. OP had an extra root on their tooth. Some people are more weird than others with all of their organs flipped around.
not malpractice just super funny. 11 years ago I had doctor go get inject the local anistedic behind a gash in thumb and the local squired out of the gash. also had a 4 teeth pulled out and the dentist said they put in desovlable stitches well 4 months later still have stitches in my mouth so I cut and pulled them out myself same with the stitches in my thumb . the only malpractice ive had is being prescribed penicillin when my record shows highly allergic to penicillin
As someone had 2 nurses for parents one who worked theatre there was many times tools were left in patients and only caught last minute at the due to the checklist for equipment though these were the days before plastic took over re-used metal tools and were very quickly seen on X-ray when others failed to follow the checklist to ensure everything was out
One of my aunts had a surgical tool left inside of her during an appendectomy. She got phlebitis in her leg when they operated on her to remove said tool.
Not a surgeon, but while my dad was training to be one, he required surgery for his finger and ended up losing said finger despite it not being necessary.
Dunno if they cover it in here, I'm only a story or two in but, thankfully, you're less likely to have any major issues now than you would've been five years ago, let alone ten or even twenty years ago. Hopefully all goes well and good luck! I recently had a massive, 16 hour operation in 2020 and mine went pretty okay despite my anxiety! Of course though, it's always best to be cautious for the first few weeks afterwards-just in case.
i won't say you have _nothing_ to worry about, but incidents like these and serious complications are pretty rare in routine surgeries! it's not a bad idea to ask your surgeon how often they perform the procedure you're having, and how often they've seen serious complications. having that information can help put your mind at ease.
@@TheGuindo it’s kind of an unusual surgery, but my orthopedic surgeon specializes in complex hip surgeries. He does 7 or 8 of the kind im having each year, which is actually quite a bit for this type of hip surgery. I trust my surgeon, but I’m also the person who seems to get the rare side effects or unusual problems lol
I had a very similar story to the root canal one. I was also the patient, not the dentist. I go in for a root canal the day before I am to run a 5K for some reason I don’t remember. Well they drill out the roots and send me on my way. The next day I proceed to vomit before going to do my run, though I still did it because like most long distance runners I am a little bit masochistic I guess. I come in two days after my run to get the crown attached to my tooth and then the dentist takes another look and finds that I had an exposed nerve the whole time and was like “well that’s not normal.” I guess that explained the vomiting, I’m just confused as to why I didn’t feel the pain.
I'm a bit concerned about how often this happens, my dad had a tumor surgically removed from his brain and his surgeon also dropped a bit of his skull on the floor 😳, thankfully they seem to have sterilized it enough and my dad hasnt had any issues from that
This isn't a surgery, but when I was 9 I broke my wrist, and the doctor decided that the cast had to go up to my shoulder, and at the bend halfway up my arm the cast dug in and I got a nasty infected gash and to this day I have quite a big scar there. It's gotten smaller over time, but it'll probably be there forever. I had my appendix taken out when I was 7, and I can tell you that the worst part for me was getting the drain removed, even under heavy doses of painkillers it still hurt like a son of a bitch.
I was hoping while listening to this that there'd be a few funny " Oops " moments during surgery stories where the mistake was corrected with no harm done . ♑✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
First story sucks first the surgeon because it really wasn't his fault, it was the fault of whoever mislabeled the lab specimens at her previous appointment
Lady with both breasts removed one sounds like why my lady doctor as a child no longer works as one: Routine skin growth side of head operation in 2001 by the same doctor who would forcefully close the practice in 2021 for malpractice concerning a test of a real cancer patient says to me that I was one of very many people mis diagnosed with cancer that he saw referred by this one doctor. Some were like me, skin growths that were benign but removed. Gets sent to her through a lab test which made them groan as a benign growth and she flips. He may have been a plastic surgeon but he also knew true skin cancer.
I HAD AN AWESOME SURGON WHEN MY APPENDIX WAS BAD I'D BEEN UP ALL NIGHT DRY HEAVING AND COULDN'T STAND UP STRAIGHT SO I WENT TO MY GYN DR HILL HE DID AN EXAM AND SAID U ARE FINE DOWN THERE SO HE PRESSED ON MY LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN AND I GRABBED HIS WRIST IT FELT LIKE I WAS BEING CUT IN HALF DR HILL SAID DO NOT GO HOME GO STRAIGHT ACROSS THE STREET TO THE ER MY GOOD FRIEND IS WORKING ILL CALL HIM N TELL HIM UR COMING, DUDE WAS WAITING AT THE DOOR HE KNEW IT WAS ME TOOK ME STRAIGHT BACK DREW BLOOD TO SEE WHAT MY WHITE CELL COUNT WAS BY THIS TIME I WAS PUKEIN UP WHAT LOOKED LIKE MUSTARD HE CALLED THE LAB EVERY FEW MIN GETTING PISSED CUZ IT WAS TAKIN SO LONG HE DECIDED TO JUST TAKE ME TO EMERGENCY SURGERY DIDNT GET THE WBC TILL LATER HE WENT IN AND MY APPENDIX WAS 4 INCHES LONG AND ABOUT TO BURST HE HOOKED ME UP SUPER COOL MAN
I'm assuming they did. Probably settled out of court but gave enough/compensated the cosmetic procedure. This would've been malpractice, although theres a lot that contributes to a mistake like this-especially if it was in the US. Surgeon was probably pressed for time, as most surgeons are anymore; complacent, as its somewhat routine, despite the massive impact it has on the patient; and of course, our favourite-insurance. Now from the story, it sounds like he didn't try, but if he's had SUCH bad experiences with third party labs, he should've ordered another. As to if insurance would've given him a hard time about it, is another story, but likely. I'm sure that was a annoying hassle that he was keen to avoid. All around though? Completely avoidable. The lab is at fault, but so is the surgeon-they can give the go or no go decision. If he was so iffy, he should've followed up. An extra few days of a delay is annoying for everyone, but it avoids stuff like this.
I’m not a surgeon, but a vet tech. Heard a story where a dog had came in, coughing, wrenching, and having various cardiovascular problems. However, any blood tests or x rays or anything of the sort came back normal. It was so bad that they were planning to put this poor dog down. Out of desperation, an exploratory surgery was done. When they got to the heart, they found a surgical rag wrapped around it. This dog had gotten abdominal surgery YEARS ago, and the surgeon had left this rag inside the dog. It had apparently migrated up into the thoracic cavity and gotten itself wrapped in the heart.
Edit: Forgot to mention that the dog was perfectly fine after they removed the rag
IN the heart?? Did the dog survive that?
@@LoveValentineXOaround the heart you dingus
That's awesome they had a success operation and found the cause. I'm assuming the dog lived if they found the issue but idk how hard removing a rag from a heart would be.
Tell us if it’s ok.
@@BillionairesArentYourFriends @The_OwO_Shogun the dog was perfectly fine and healthy once the rag was removed (:
Me as patient. About 25 years ago.
Went to my local hospital emergency with severe abdominal pain. Doctor who saw me gave laxative suppositories insisting it was constipation. Kept insisting was constipation. On a gurney overnight, not actually admitted as such. Different doctor sees me in the morning, books me for surgery asap. Luckily a surgeon had had a cancellation that morning. My appendix were infected and on the verge of rupturing. If the first doctor had his way I'd be dead. Incredibly thankful for the second doctor that saw me. Wish I'd been able to see that second doctor again to say thank you. Really hope he has had a long and positive career since.
The first video in your favourites playlist is hilarious
I was almost the lady with sepsis. Had an emergency c-section, in the rush to get the baby out they nicked my bladder and lower intestine. I honestly felt fine, just light headed which I thought was normal and occasional stomach upset which I also thought was normal having never had any surgery before. Friend forced me to go to the Er, I was mysteriously missing over 1/4 of my blood and had multiple organ infections verging on sepsis. Lucky for me 1 month in the hospital on iV antibiotics and several blood transfusions later I was good to go. Still can’t believe I was that sick and somehow convinced myself it was just normal post-op.
Dear GOD. We women are so ignored by medical personnel that we're taught from a young age that misery and agony are somehow normal. When in reality we're just horribly ignored.
I'm glad you're here, girl. Godspeed to you and your baby.
I once thought a broken back that I thought was a bad muscle pull. Do not recommend. (HUG)
Story 11 is terrifying to me as someone who has had a laparoscopic appendectomy!!! Imagine going in for a life-saving yet routine and minimally invasive operation and never coming back! That poor person and their family! And the poor surgeons too, it sounds like they were all very competent and caring and it was just a horrible accident 😢
I had laparoscopic appendectomy and an infection last year after my appendix burst. I spent almost 5 days in the hospital. Luckily, I had a great team working on me but this story just made me realize that anything could have happened and it could have turned out much worse!
Yea I had one but mine had bursted so that one is crazy
For as long as I could remember, I've always had a fear of surgery and these stories are why.
I remember being 10 and getting my appendix removed, and 13 when I broke my arm in two places and my wrist in the same fall. Every time I go into surgery, no matter how healthy I am, I always have that fear of "What if the anaesthetist accidentally OD's me on anaesthetic? What if something goes wrong and I don't wake up?" every time.
Story 7 reminds me so much of something that happened to my great aunt a couple of months ago. She was at Las Vegas because she’s a gambler. Btw we are Canadian. We live in Canada and typically have free healthcare. Anyways, she slipped or something, broke a hip and cracked her skull. She’s fine, she’s still breathing but holy shit is the medical system in the states corrupt. So, we have this 85 year old who slipped, broke a hip and bonked her head a little too hard. Instead of calling my mom, who normally is I charge of medical decisions in our family, they let an elderly person with a brain injury make decisions. What we would’ve wanted them to do is make sure she’d survive a flight home and fly her to a hospital like we would’ve done here. Nope, she got multiple surgeries and it cost $113,000 USD. Close to $200,000 CAD. We had to sell a good chunk of land from one of the families ranches just to pay the bill.
People have emergency contacts for a reason, if you work at a hospital and a foreign patient comes in please call it if they have one. If they can make it back to their country, send them back. Don’t risk an entire family’s livelihood or financial stability so your hospital can make a quick buck. Send them where they can be comfortable and don’t have to worry about how an accident will affect their bloodline.
Should have gotten travel insurance.
Sounds about par. I'm sorry you guys had to go through that. (HUG) I'm glad your aunt is OK!
Next time she travels, if she comes back, GET TRAVEL INSURANCE. You probably could have talked down the cost, but I doubt they gave you a chance.
@@SewardWriter we do have some travel insurance but it definitely does not cover that cost. We barely have $200,000 on hand and the farmland only covered part of it. Anyways, my great aunt will probably get arrested if she steps foot in the US because we simply cannot pay the bills. It’s a shitty situation but as long as she stays here the US can’t do anything about it. They aren’t just gonna reach out to the RCMP to arrest an elderly woman because her and her family can’t pay off bills that cost as much as a house.
@@wintershockyou don’t get arrested for not paying medical bills lol
7:00 bro the path was RIGHT THERE, what are you DOING. (love your videos, the minecraft in the background is sometimes unintentionally hilarious though.)
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one lmao. Like it’s RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.
I was once a histotech... OMG, that first story! I feel so bad for everyone all around!
For the last one, another thing you don't want to hear your doctor say is "can we name this after you?" Happened to my grandpa.
merry christmas, undersparked team (and fans)! hope all your halls are decked and hollies are jolly!
Merry Christmas to you too :)
story 5 reminds me. I am not a vet, but got to observe a vet in for the day to do 2 surgeries. A spay for a cat and a mastectomy for a dog. First up was the spay, and after removing one ovary the vet had been ready to close up, so I asked if this cat somehow only had one ovary. This led to the vet being able to fix what would have been a pretty big mistake, and removed the second ovary as well before closing up. The mastectomy went fine though. But this is why I can understand it when vet techs say that they are the baby sitters of the actual vets.
Last one. I inherited my father’s curse of extra molar roots and also, they either curled in or splayed out. And the residual of inch long eye teeth, just extra long roots. (Some of my great uncles looked like vampires). I had to face having most of my teeth out via oral surgery and how things were sewn up, don’t ask. 11 months of bone spurs. I have a specimen cup of weird trashed teeth (20) and a smile in a glass, phantom toothaches are real. Sympathy to anyone that has a weird molar and the are doing root canal and miss one…(been there twice)
I got splayed out and curly roots too, plus some extra roots, but Im also missing the bone between roots and sinuses, just easily pierced membrane, so my first ever root canal was a horror show. I was in serious pain, but the ancient doc claimed that this tooth is already dead, no numbing needed. It wasnt, the dentists assistant (visibly upset by this turn of events) held me down by my shoulders, while I cried so much I feared Ill drown in my own snot! And since she didnt bother to look at my x-rays before she started this torture session, she bored right thru into my sinus, giving me yearly sinus infections at age 16. Ill get one if I cry too hard, get really runny nose or just get the flu..
Next day Im really sick, half of my face is swollen and the pressure is so bad I cant lower my head one bit. I go back, the ancient lady argues with me (theres nothing wrong, Im just imagining it), only after I explain I taste the saline wash in my snot, she gives up and looks at the x-rays. No apologies, but puts me on penicillin. Oh yeah, she still claimed the tooth was dead, the nerve pain was all in my head. It took me 5 years to go back to dentist chair after that experience, now Im a fear patient, I wasnt before.
Another dentist ripped a nice chunk out of my mandible, because she also assumed Im just another everyday extraction patient. I guess the roots were infused to the jaw bone, the crunch it made was spectacular. Got my jaw locked shut for the first time too, great. To top it all off, novocaine cant be used on the inside of my mouth, my nerves there are connected, its rare like the missing bone. Ive had real nice feelings of being choked by my own throat because of it, twice. Now I tell all my dentists about my peculiar teeth, I dont trust them to read my file anymore, Im too old to go thru any of it again. Im sure some new rarity will show up, tho.
@@janemiettinen5176 I commensurate. I have a lot of scar tissue so getting anything dead was difficult. Plus I metabolize lidocaine very quickly. Most of the time it wouldn’t hold long enough to finish a procedure. My wisdom tooth extraction, the specialist was young, skilled and filling n in for the regular one. He had difficulties all day and was running long by just after lunch. He zipped through 3 shots and took off. I waited for him to show again and and asked him when he was going to numb me up? I should be ready. I carefully pointed out three tiny local isolated spots. That are already thawing because he used lidocaine. I touched and pointed my way through the 11 shots I would need. He read my file, same was listed inside the flap. A flat deer in headlights OH. He loaded up the other stuff and started the sequence. I told him20-30. He finally returned and we began. My mouth is small and the arches are too small to hold the teeth properly, due to the freakish amounts of sugar my mother craved while carrying me. (Documented in the Inuit when they put them into reservations and villages in the 1960’s.) trying to to use clamps and dams- don’t fit, painful as hades, and constantly choking to the point of reflex vomiting. He managed to get in back there and get the wisdom tooth dug out. When he broke it to extract it I thought he was going to break my jaw. Got the aftermath waded through. Spouse was late to pick me up, so I had completely thawed, and I had to navigate my spouse to a pharmacy that was still open to get painkiller prescription and navigate us home. About six hours after I thawed to be able to take something to cope. Pain was a 9…
An bad ear infection would have ruined disney trip more
[I am NOT a medical professional]
The "string" is most likely wound 'packing', a thin gauze, usually treated, used as a wick for oozing fluids to leave a pocket-type wound as it heals & I believe is medical standard.
if it was left there intentionally i don't think the doctor would've been so quick to bring her back in and have it removed. they would've just explained to the family what it was there for.
How could you possibly mistake a male dog for a spay? The nuts are right there!?
Yeah! I think they pull a blanket with a hole over the dog and maybe the blankets aren't positioned right sometimes 😅? Or they're just tired asf 💀
Vets sometimes do neuters before 6 months, and it's not always that easy to tell that young, at least on cats. I've never had a dog.
Only tangentially related to your comments at the end there, but my doctor once told me some variant of "Never seen that before" because my vitamin B12 was *completely unreadable* in my blood tests one day, essentially so close to zero that I should not have been *alive* let alone conscious or perfectly lucid. "...Huh." was all I had to say at the time, because I didn't know how dangerous that was until this year when I was reading a story about a guy who very nearly died due to B12 deficiency.
Eyyy somehow not ded gang
I feel kind of bad for laughing at this. Glad you're still with us!
Unfortunately, simple mistakes on the operating table will 100% guarantee a medical malpractice lawsuit. Everything must be perfect in healthcare, meaning if someone dies, it'll all be your fault, and that is a burden you must live with for the rest of your life. People will hate you if a single minor error occurs and everything unravels to Hell in a hand basket. That's why you cannot make mistakes as a surgeon. Ever.
Story is like something that would happen in a medical drama. Wow. That's so tragic. 😞
Not a surgeon, not a patient, but this story involves my dad. He needed to shoulder surgery to get screws put in (not sure why, I'm guessing some military injury). For context, he's a big guy. 6'5" and has always been at least somewhat muscular. The surgeons miscalculated how much anesthetic he'd need for the surgery, and he woke up halfway through.
While he was awake, he couldn't move, but he could feel the pain of the surgery. After a few agonizing minutes, he managed to let out a groan while trying to scream. The surgeons heard it and managed to get him some more anesthetic.
He's never been religious, but at that moment he thought he was in Hell
Neil Armstrong was killed in a freak accident after removal of a pacemaker after heart surgery.
I'm not showing this to my mom. She barely survived the hospital getting her pacemaker the first time. (If not for a particular intern, she'd be with my dad right now. Dad's not here any more.)
Holy moley I didn't know that!
Fun fact: Neil Armstrong died on my birthday. On the exact same day, Voyager 1 left the solar system.
Last story: We're all a bit weird. I have an extra artery running into one of my kidneys. OP had an extra root on their tooth. Some people are more weird than others with all of their organs flipped around.
not malpractice just super funny. 11 years ago I had doctor go get inject the local anistedic behind a gash in thumb and the local squired out of the gash. also had a 4 teeth pulled out and the dentist said they put in desovlable stitches well 4 months later still have stitches in my mouth so I cut and pulled them out myself same with the stitches in my thumb . the only malpractice ive had is being prescribed penicillin when my record shows highly allergic to penicillin
As someone had 2 nurses for parents one who worked theatre there was many times tools were left in patients and only caught last minute at the due to the checklist for equipment though these were the days before plastic took over re-used metal tools and were very quickly seen on X-ray when others failed to follow the checklist to ensure everything was out
One of my aunts had a surgical tool left inside of her during an appendectomy. She got phlebitis in her leg when they operated on her to remove said tool.
Not a surgeon, but while my dad was training to be one, he required surgery for his finger and ended up losing said finger despite it not being necessary.
We are breaking hippa with this one🔥🔥🔥
I’m having major surgery on my hip in 2 weeks. I’m an idiot for watching this now.
Dunno if they cover it in here, I'm only a story or two in but, thankfully, you're less likely to have any major issues now than you would've been five years ago, let alone ten or even twenty years ago. Hopefully all goes well and good luck! I recently had a massive, 16 hour operation in 2020 and mine went pretty okay despite my anxiety! Of course though, it's always best to be cautious for the first few weeks afterwards-just in case.
i won't say you have _nothing_ to worry about, but incidents like these and serious complications are pretty rare in routine surgeries! it's not a bad idea to ask your surgeon how often they perform the procedure you're having, and how often they've seen serious complications. having that information can help put your mind at ease.
@@TheGuindo it’s kind of an unusual surgery, but my orthopedic surgeon specializes in complex hip surgeries. He does 7 or 8 of the kind im having each year, which is actually quite a bit for this type of hip surgery. I trust my surgeon, but I’m also the person who seems to get the rare side effects or unusual problems lol
You ok now?
@@ballsuckervr I’m still in the hospital, but I should be home tomorrow or Friday. Thanks for asking!
I heard a surgeon say "let me open WikiHow: To do an open heart surgery."
I had a very similar story to the root canal one. I was also the patient, not the dentist. I go in for a root canal the day before I am to run a 5K for some reason I don’t remember. Well they drill out the roots and send me on my way. The next day I proceed to vomit before going to do my run, though I still did it because like most long distance runners I am a little bit masochistic I guess. I come in two days after my run to get the crown attached to my tooth and then the dentist takes another look and finds that I had an exposed nerve the whole time and was like “well that’s not normal.” I guess that explained the vomiting, I’m just confused as to why I didn’t feel the pain.
Send this to someone going to surgery
Notice how there were almost no surgeons giving their stories? I guess its fear of admitting fault and being sued.
This seems like a video I really shouldn't watch. Its also 1.30AM. lets goo
Lmao bro💀 you still up 😪😂
I'm a bit concerned about how often this happens, my dad had a tumor surgically removed from his brain and his surgeon also dropped a bit of his skull on the floor 😳, thankfully they seem to have sterilized it enough and my dad hasnt had any issues from that
This isn't a surgery, but when I was 9 I broke my wrist, and the doctor decided that the cast had to go up to my shoulder, and at the bend halfway up my arm the cast dug in and I got a nasty infected gash and to this day I have quite a big scar there. It's gotten smaller over time, but it'll probably be there forever. I had my appendix taken out when I was 7, and I can tell you that the worst part for me was getting the drain removed, even under heavy doses of painkillers it still hurt like a son of a bitch.
I was hoping while listening to this that there'd be a few funny " Oops " moments during surgery stories where the mistake was corrected with no harm done .
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These stories are so scary that im glad im too poor to afford good health insurance to go to rhe doctor! 🤣🤣🤣
First story sucks first the surgeon because it really wasn't his fault, it was the fault of whoever mislabeled the lab specimens at her previous appointment
What do you do if you're in the middle of something like a heart surgery, then you feel a jiant sneeze coming?
Oooh I’m about to have a tendon graft in my wrist. Now I’m scared
Had the weird comment on my last root canal too…. Though I only had 3 roots not 4
many mistakes were done to me. I think Im traumatized 😅
Majority of these surgeons probably used AI kr ChatGDP to get through school
Lmao 💀
probably shouldnt watch this cuz it would prob give me surgery anxiety
Surgeons don't make mistakes. It is known.
Lady with both breasts removed one sounds like why my lady doctor as a child no longer works as one: Routine skin growth side of head operation in 2001 by the same doctor who would forcefully close the practice in 2021 for malpractice concerning a test of a real cancer patient says to me that I was one of very many people mis diagnosed with cancer that he saw referred by this one doctor. Some were like me, skin growths that were benign but removed. Gets sent to her through a lab test which made them groan as a benign growth and she flips. He may have been a plastic surgeon but he also knew true skin cancer.
I HAD AN AWESOME SURGON WHEN MY APPENDIX WAS BAD I'D BEEN UP ALL NIGHT DRY HEAVING AND COULDN'T STAND UP STRAIGHT SO I WENT TO MY GYN DR HILL HE DID AN EXAM AND SAID U ARE FINE DOWN THERE SO HE PRESSED ON MY LOWER RIGHT ABDOMEN AND I GRABBED HIS WRIST IT FELT LIKE I WAS BEING CUT IN HALF DR HILL SAID DO NOT GO HOME GO STRAIGHT ACROSS THE STREET TO THE ER MY GOOD FRIEND IS WORKING ILL CALL HIM N TELL HIM UR COMING, DUDE WAS WAITING AT THE DOOR HE KNEW IT WAS ME TOOK ME STRAIGHT BACK DREW BLOOD TO SEE WHAT MY WHITE CELL COUNT WAS BY THIS TIME I WAS PUKEIN UP WHAT LOOKED LIKE MUSTARD HE CALLED THE LAB EVERY FEW MIN GETTING PISSED CUZ IT WAS TAKIN SO LONG HE DECIDED TO JUST TAKE ME TO EMERGENCY SURGERY DIDNT GET THE WBC TILL LATER HE WENT IN AND MY APPENDIX WAS 4 INCHES LONG AND ABOUT TO BURST HE HOOKED ME UP SUPER COOL MAN
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OMG. Did the hospital pay for her to get breast implants??
I'm assuming they did. Probably settled out of court but gave enough/compensated the cosmetic procedure. This would've been malpractice, although theres a lot that contributes to a mistake like this-especially if it was in the US. Surgeon was probably pressed for time, as most surgeons are anymore; complacent, as its somewhat routine, despite the massive impact it has on the patient; and of course, our favourite-insurance. Now from the story, it sounds like he didn't try, but if he's had SUCH bad experiences with third party labs, he should've ordered another. As to if insurance would've given him a hard time about it, is another story, but likely. I'm sure that was a annoying hassle that he was keen to avoid. All around though? Completely avoidable. The lab is at fault, but so is the surgeon-they can give the go or no go decision. If he was so iffy, he should've followed up. An extra few days of a delay is annoying for everyone, but it avoids stuff like this.
Is this voice a real voice I can’t tell
Not a great video to watch when I'm getting a Double Mastectomy in the future, considering the amount of stories in here pertaining to them.
I hope everything turned out okay.
How tf is this top awarded when there’s not even any replies
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@@literally_ramiel best name ever
Whoopie dingledorf. Maybe make a pertinent comment relating to the content?
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