When I had to get eye surgery as a kid, my mom insisted until a nurse took a sharpie to circle the eye they were supposed to operate. All this time I thought "Mom's even more paranoid than usual, the surgeon and all the crew know their jobs, we must look pretty crazy."
2 days later at the same hospital there was an error and they operated the wrong eye.
But I mean, the surgery was great in both cases, they did a great job cutting through delicate tissues and blood vessels and "sewing" everything back together. Their technical skills were on fleek. It was just a really unfortunate error somewhere in the paperwork.
So anyways better safe than sorry and looking paranoid can be worth it.
I have a friend who is a surgeon, and he told me about a woman who had the wrong leg amputated. While it made the news in a big way for a while, but what they didn't say was that the woman had problems in BOTH legs, and the one they cut off was in much worse shape than the other one, it just wasn't causing as much pain. Apparently, she would have lost the second leg anyway in about six months.
The hospital (rightfully) had to pay up, big time, but he went on to explain that, sometimes, it is a bit more complicated than what you read in the news.
2 days later at the same hospital there was an error and they operated the wrong eye.
But I mean, the surgery was great in both cases, they did a great job cutting through delicate tissues and blood vessels and "sewing" everything back together. Their technical skills were on fleek. It was just a really unfortunate error somewhere in the paperwork.
So anyways better safe than sorry and looking paranoid can be worth it.
The hospital (rightfully) had to pay up, big time, but he went on to explain that, sometimes, it is a bit more complicated than what you read in the news.