Reply #17: I dated this doctor.... [View All]

[CanuckAmok]

...before I met my ex-wife. She told me all kinds of surgery horror stories.

One of the worst was this story which has been around for a while, in doctors' lore:

An obese woman was being put under with a general anaesthetic, and a general to cause muscle paralysis during the operation. She was being treated to drain fluids, and to treat other complications of an immune deficiency. After she went under, the chief surgeon made all kinds of jokes about how fat she was, and how they should do some lipo while she was out and sell the fat to a soap factory or an African nation, etc. Really cheap shots.

Anyway, after a few minutes of this, the anaethesiologist realised that the woman's muscles were paralysed, as they should have been, but the general hadn't taken full effect. In other words, she was conscious, but unable to move/communicate.

So she had not only experienced the preliminary incisions, but had heard all these doctors and nurses making fun of her.

And she didn't survive the procedure. It's still wildly speculated that she would have survived, had she not been a prime candidate for malpractice plaintiff.

Brrr.....