Originally Posted by MaddogK (Post 1595036)

So sad, this teaching hospital threw away a perfectly good 'free' guinea pig. Imagine all the interns who wont have a chance to practice their pelvic exams on her while she's under. They also wont have a body to try new surgical techniques on.

Tragic !

Originally Posted by tater (Post 1595069)

Where was vivisection mentioned? Residents "practice" on everyone who gets surgery. Had her procedure been done at a teaching hospital, a Resident would have been scrubbed in at the very least, and likely would have done the case (maybe the chief, with a junior resident, and an attending nearby in case something went wrong). I remember when my wife was a 1st year surgery resident and she was the neurosurgeon on call for the only level 1 trauma center in the state of NM*. Talk about a bad day to get hit in the head... (she'd agree, she was utterly clueless, and it was her very first rotation—luckily she could call her dad (a retired brain surgeon) to ask for help if needed).

If you consider that statement to be about "vivisection" then stay away from University Hospitals :)

The pelvic exam thing was clearly a reference to the recent cases in NZ (?) that were on the news.




*I do mean "the" singular. She was only to call the attending when he was needed (and god help the resident who called him for what he'd think was "no good reason.")

Originally Posted by MaddogK (Post 1595036)

So sad, this teaching hospital threw away a perfectly good 'free' guinea pig. Imagine all the interns who wont have a chance to practice their pelvic exams on her while she's under. They also wont have a body to try new surgical techniques on.

Tragic !

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen (Post 1595070)

Classy.

Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo (Post 1594882)

What I find amazing in this is that another hospital accepted her.....