When The Doctor Accidentally Injects Formaldehyde

It's believed by many historians that the 'surgery that killed three people' was slander made up to tarnish Liston's reputation.

The anesthesia fiascos are why I always demand a local Only for any operation.

16:36 – Without a doubt, many members of Arkansas's law-making entities invested heavily in Virtual Private Networks right before they undertook a certain action. And are getting wealthy off of it now.

13:59 – Actually, feeling pain does cure some medical conditions. For instance, suppose someone has a psychiatric condition that causes them to espouse a belief that pain is a good thing for the surgery-patient. If you operate (without anesthetic) enough times on those delusional people (many of them doctors), you will eventually cure them of that delusion.

5:30 – There was actually a surgery that had a mortality-rate far higher than 300% for ONE surgery. The patient's skull was so hard that the doctor said "These saws and drills won't work. We'll have to dynamite."

4:14 – "He really was all about reducing suffering." Well, yeah, when people are deceased, they don't suffer anymore.

My father was wide awake for his pacemaker surgery. After surgery, my father cussed out the doctor for the pain. The doctor didn't believe him until my father quoted things that the doctor and nurses said. The doctor turned white. My father was an easy going guy and didn't sue but I was pissed.

Oh, I had such a story of my own! Several of them, tbh.
The most nasty happened when I was 12 or 11 and had a very bad case of sinusitis (coz nobody cared to bring me to a doctor for couple of months). So, eventually I was hospitalised and went through a surgical operation. The process was as it follows: the surgeon takes A BIG LONG NEEDLE (like, 5mm in diameter, I guess, don't remember exactly), inserts it into patient's nostril, and, with a smash, punctures something deep inside of the nose, so all the pus could go out. But. In my case, when they finished with the first of my nostrils, the surgion said: "Oh, such a brave boy you were! And we even spent less of anesthetic than we expected! What if we WON'T USE IT AT ALL THE NEXT TIME?". And he did what he said. Two seconds later, he punctured something deep in my nose, with a gigantic needle, with a smash, without any anesthesia. On purpose. Because he was interested in watching what would happen if he won't use anesthesia on a 12yo boy. That was… Painful.

Another case happened, when I was 7. I had a hernia to be removed. And anaesthetist had a re-used syringe. I remember, how I asked him "what are those red bubbles in the syringe" and he replied that those were candies. I was too young, but now I guess that it was blood of another patient in that syringe and they just used it twice or more times on different children.

AND ANOTHER STORY (God, how am I still alive). When I was 13, my neurologist prescribed me a course of massage. The first massage woman accused me on spying on her and her methods of work (because I checked time when every time she finished her job), and refused to massage me. So, I went to another massage woman of that hospital. I visited her once. And I still can't remember how I went back home, as well as the next month. She just messed three vertebrae of my neck out of order. Strong woman. I had nausea, neck pain, memory problems and a lot of other problems for seven years. 24/7. Finally, I met a dude who fixed it for two cigarettes and now, 6 years later, it's still OK. And he was not even a doctor or a man of medicine in any sence. The only good doctor I ever met in my life.

I had a botched, albeit very minor botched optical surgery. The surgeon was to correct the esotropia in my right eye, but ended up overcorrecting the perfectly functional left eye. This effectively gave me an exotropic left eye.

I can see perfectly fine over a decade on, it's just that I still have a wonky eye.

(I don't know if said surgeon was sacked.)

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At least the Wide Awake surgery didn’t get administered an amnesiac so the hospital could avoid charges. The family did eventually find out

Having my csection awake, under general anesthesia was the worst experience. Didn’t feel anything, but the anesthesia and i guess my body refusing to go into shock made me extremely nauseaous. Longest 49 minutes if my life, i dint even remember when they shower me my baby, i was so out of it trying to fight the nausea and freaking out.

oh so HCA doctors.

Years ago, I helped a trans friend recover from bottom surgery. They uh…. Yknow how there’s usually ONE scrotum with TWO testicles inside? Well, he was given TWO scrotums with ONE testicular implant in each one. It was quite a surprise to both of us when he woke up and saw that. I will remember it for the rest of my life.

I've been trying to resolve pains during my cycle. I started when I was eleven and the pain was blinding, so we went to a gynecologist. Got pain meds. The pain meds didn't work because my body ejected them before they could work. Went to a second one, again, perfectly fine.
The third one was a man, and was by far the worst experience – he was completely dismissive of my pain, said I'm perfectly healthy, pain is normal, get birth control…
Went to a fourth one (bless him, he actually listened), he found some problems, gave me meds, for one or two cycles it was fine, then it came right back.
He didn't dismiss me, told me to set an appointment and come check it again.
The symptoms are bad, but only last the first day, which is oddly specific. Blinding pain, vomitting to the point I can't even hold down a sip of water.
A friend of my father's wife had very similar symptoms and they denied her treatment for 20 years. Turns out there was an effing tumor. She had to pay enormous amount of money to get it out and she can't walk properly because of how bad it was.
I do not want to end up like that.