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Dare I ask about "the skull flap thing"?

blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/lawsuit-claims-emory-lost-part-of-mans-skull-then-charged-him-19k-to-replace-it/ https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/lawsuit-claims-emory-lost-pa... Basically they had to cut into someone’s skull as part of a surgery. They did not label and catalog skull parts properly. Because they lost the skull part they had to use a synthetic skull flap, and they charged the patient for it. The synthetic flap caused an infection. The patient was on the hook for something like $150K for all of this (the synthetic part, the procedure of placing it, the infection) which was due to the hospital’s own criminal negligence. An investigated showed that the hospital was not properly labeling and cataloging parts for many patients and basically had a mess of random skull parts that would not make their way back to all those patients, so it is a systemic issue and not just an unfortunate one off mistake. All of this is alleged and there is a lawsuit pending, but it seems to me like the part about a systemic issue of mishandled parts is confirmed.
- sva_ 2y ago
  Sounds like material for the next Dr. Death season. The first two seasons were both pretty great.
- munificent 2y ago
  I'm just imagining some refrigerator in the nurse's breakroom with a big fiesta bowl of what looks like odd tortilla chips with a Post-In note labeled "skull bits do not eat".
- ForOldHack 2y ago
  I hate when that happens: Obligatory. Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?" Witness: "No." Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?" Witness: "No." Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?" Witness: "No." Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?" Witness: "No." Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?" Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar." Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?" Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."
- wrsh07 2y ago
  This is truly horrifying and also illustrates a massive incentive problem. The hospital probably made money through its negligence (until the inevitable lawsuit)
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https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/lawsuit-claims-emory-lost-part-of-mans-skull-then-charged-him-19k-to-replace-it/ https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/lawsuit-claims-emory-lost-pa... Basically they had to cut into someone’s skull as part of a surgery. They did not label and catalog skull parts properly. Because they lost the skull part they had to use a synthetic skull flap, and they charged the patient for it. The synthetic flap caused an infection. The patient was on the hook for something like $150K for all of this (the synthetic part, the procedure of placing it, the infection) which was due to the hospital’s own criminal negligence. An investigated showed that the hospital was not properly labeling and cataloging parts for many patients and basically had a mess of random skull parts that would not make their way back to all those patients, so it is a systemic issue and not just an unfortunate one off mistake. All of this is alleged and there is a lawsuit pending, but it seems to me like the part about a systemic issue of mishandled parts is confirmed.

sva_ 2y ago
Sounds like material for the next Dr. Death season. The first two seasons were both pretty great.
munificent 2y ago
I'm just imagining some refrigerator in the nurse's breakroom with a big fiesta bowl of what looks like odd tortilla chips with a Post-In note labeled "skull bits do not eat".
ForOldHack 2y ago
I hate when that happens: Obligatory. Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?" Witness: "No." Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?" Witness: "No." Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?" Witness: "No." Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?" Witness: "No." Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?" Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar." Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?" Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."
wrsh07 2y ago
This is truly horrifying and also illustrates a massive incentive problem. The hospital probably made money through its negligence (until the inevitable lawsuit)

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