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>This sounds like something you'd read about in a third-world country in the 19th century. Not even then. Neither third world country doctors nor 19th century
by lIl-IIIl 6mo ago
>This sounds like something you'd read about in a third-world country in the 19th century.
Not even then. Neither third world country doctors nor 19th century physicians would confuse the liver for the spleen.
- paradox460 6mo agoThe ancient Greeks knew the difference. They may not have known what the spleen itself did, but they knew it wasn't the liver
- kotaKat 6mo agoYou sure? I've seen enough terrible "surgeons" in rural America that'd rip out a liver all day long that washed out of their residency programs after "moving to Canada" and washing out of a crappy Vancouver hospital. And there ain't no "kindly revert" when you pull the wrong organ.
- nneonneo 6mo agoCurious - does Vancouver have an especially bad reputation for medicine, or did you pick the city/country arbitrarily? Canada's medical training program seems to me to be reasonably rigorous; as an outsider it doesn't seem worse than a typical American medical program. Unfortunately it also suffers from severe (artificial!) shortages of doctors.
- kotaKat 6mo agoHow else do the third world country washout doctors end up in a rural clinic in nowhere America and end up with the Vancouver accent? Residency on the West coast in Canada. Always.