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Surgeon Operated With Penknife
//A surgeon at a crisis-hit NHS trust used a Swiss Army penknife to open up the chest of a patient because he claimed he could not find a sterile scalpel....Prof Graeme Poston, an expert witness on clinical negligence and a former consultant surgeon, told the BBC: “It surprises me and appals me. Firstly, a penknife is not sterile. Secondly it is not an operating instrument. And thirdly all the kit [must have been] there."//
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This is frightening! I can't see that he's been struck off - but I really hope I just missed that bit in this report.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.True story- my brother was working on the roof of a private hospital in Manchester (the one most top footballers attend incidentally) and suddenly he heard shouting below- it was a surgeon asking whether he had a cross-head screwdriver?! He did, an old one, which he lent him- was apparently doing a hip replacement and couldn't find his (sterile) one!
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The operating theatres used to hve local sterilisers ( Sister Suzie) but these were abandoned and sterilization was done centrally ( BSE)
so this must have been some years ago
cross head screw driver - to shout out the windown the surgeon wd have to de-scruub half was frooda operation
good stories - no wonder they are anonymised
THAT hospital.... i know it - the ladies of the night ply their trade outside. One surgeon got a warning for taking too long to say he had no need of their services
the 'out' has a ditchy thing ( adverse camber etc) where a car can stall and get stuck... I was whispering "start! start! please start!" as I was stuck in the gutter and a nice lady with tights studded with Marilyn Monroe lips draped herslef on my bonnet - eek - - I am sure that is what happened above
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