These are some stories from the remote villages and towns, where the doctors work in there own ways, with limited resources they can treat almost any desease. In those remote areas a doctor is supposed to be a physician, surgeon and specialist. Anyway, let's read them just to laugh or for a lesson, whatever.
Take Glucose, Give blood
A few years back in a small village of Balochistan there was a good doctor. A diarrhoea patient visited him for treatment. After diagnosis, doctor laid him on the bed and injected a glucose drip feed. A doctor's friend arrived at his clinic, doctor thought it would take an hour and a half to finish. Therefore, he decided to take his friend to a nearby restaurant for some refreshment. After two hours spending at the restaurant, the doctor realized that he had left a patient with drip-feed and rushed back to clinic to remove the drip-feed.
He reached the patient and shocked at the result of his negligence, the drip-feed bag was filled with blood due to the reversal of the flow, because the glucose drip-feed bag was completely empty.
Six Shots For The Fever
One of our officers at Uthal office felt malaria symptoms which caused him the fever with strong shivering. His assistant brought a local doctor for further diagnosis. After a brief check up, the doctor gave him first shot of injection on his left arm. Subsequently, the second shot was given to him on his right arm. The doctor dipped the thermometer into his mouth, there was no temperature drop. So, he grabbed another injection and used his right arm to gave him the third shot and fourth shot on his left arm.
The patient was moaning and groaning, not because of the fever, but it was due to the four injections. The doctor checked his fever again and found no improvement. He prepared the fifth injection and this time instead of arms he injected that into his buttocks. The patient remained calm and accepted his destiny.
After five shots, the patient's condition was same, therefore doctor had to prepare the sixth shot and injected that into his left buttock. The patient started sweating slowly, he saw the sweat drops on his forehead.
The patient asked the doctor in thin voice with the terrible face expressions "Is there anymore injection you want to give me, doctor?", doctor shouted "Don't worry sir, you will be fine within five minutes", looking at the thermometer, "great, there is no fever, your body temperature is normal", doctor added.
A New Treatment For Malaria
A "jack of all trades, master of none" doctor was treating the patients under the shade of trees in a remote village. He was diagnosing a patient suffering from toothache and doctor was about to pull his tooth. Doctor told him to lay down on the bed under the tree. Suddenly, the patient realized that he had to go to washroom. Unfortunately, there was no washroom, so he entered into a nearby sugarcane field to ease himself.
Meanwhile, a malaria patient knocked the doctors attention, doctor said"Lay him down on the bed under that tree". The attendant laid the patient on the same bed, where the tootache patient was laid before.
After giving an injection to a patient, doctor moved to the half faint malaria patient and said "Open your mouth", moaning patient did so and doctor grabbed his wisdom tooth and pulled it out without realizing that he was a malaria patient he just sent there. After few moments the actual toothache patient approached the doctor and asked to remove his tooth. Crying malaria patient asked the doctor "Is this a new treatment for malaria?"
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Many get well by their treatments.
recall the guy in Florida went to have his
leg amputated and the Doctors took the
wrong leg, but he still needed the other
leg removed because of something that
wasn't able to be cured. Now heres this
poor guy, both legs amputated because
Doctors did not read the chart properly.
Then the one about a woman the got
diagnosed with breast cancer. She was
set up for surgery to have both breasts
removed. Before the anesthetist began
the drug to put her under he asked her
what her name was, they had the wrong
woman on the operating table! The xrays
were no even hers! Imagine that!
I had heard a news about an operation of appendix, in that operation,
doctors left scissors in the patient's belly. When, patient cried of the extreme pain in his stomach, doctors re-xrayed him and reoperated to remove the scissors.
As you said, these are stories from remote villages. I appreciate that there are doctors that are willing to go where they are truly needed instead of where they can just make more money! Most do the best they can with limited resources. Bless them anyways, mistakes and all!
They are doing what they could.
But, mistakes happen seldom.
We have good news and bad news.
OK, What's the good news;
we just signed up with a new HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)
that has really low rates.
That's great! So what's the bad news;
the HMO just hired Doctor Kevorkian
(the suicide doctor)
Do you know another one.
Tha HMO Dr. Kavorkian! HaHaHaHa
Hey Barb....I remember that case with the amputated legs....he tried to sue and the case was dismissed....he didn't have a leg to stand on. (I heard what you wrote attached to what I wrote as a joke)
Shah
Nice ideas