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Patient blinded after surgery on the wrong eye

russiatoday.com — An elderly patient has taken legal action against a Moscow clinic after going in for eye surgery, only for the doctor to operate on the wrong eye, but has received little compensation or comfort.

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  • ADifferentUsern, on 06/11/2009, -2/+40all these puns are pretty cornea.
  • FJRRulz, on 06/11/2009, -0/+24Hopefully this was just an eye-solated incident.
  • diggan8, on 06/11/2009, -4/+26I bet she was eye-rate.
  • antc1986, on 06/11/2009, -0/+20Eye Caramba!
  • Shwaavay, on 06/11/2009, -1/+19I'm sorry ma'am, but we accidentally the wrong eye...
  • TySchwab23, on 06/11/2009, -4/+22what an eye-opening story.
  • inactive, on 06/11/2009, -2/+13He blinded her with science
    lololololol
  • Brasolis, on 06/11/2009, -0/+11THE WHOLE EYE?!?!
  • WorldGroove, on 06/11/2009, -0/+11Aye!
  • Coffeedemon, on 06/11/2009, -0/+10This is why you should read comments back to yourself before saving them.
  • meruru, on 06/11/2009, -0/+10"Oh *****, I thought green meant it was healthy and red meant you were injured there. My bad."
  • Onion575, on 06/11/2009, -0/+9Ok, guys... lens stop with the eye jokes.
  • mctom987, on 06/11/2009, -1/+9Eye see what you did there.
  • stjoad, on 06/11/2009, -2/+10Iris that hadn't happened!
  • protogenxl, on 06/11/2009, -2/+9In Soviet Russia, Right is Left
  • Talphin, on 06/11/2009, -0/+7Next time, don't try so hard.
  • inactive, on 06/11/2009, -0/+7And don't forget to have your body marked at all times in case of emergencies and accidents that render you unconscious or unable to do so.
  • Ninjab3ar, on 06/11/2009, -1/+7At the pupil who did it....
  • lex0429, on 06/11/2009, -0/+6id love to see the doctors face when before cutting you open they remove your robe to see you are covered from head to toe in green and red paint
    "man this guy must really love christmas, now lets cut off that red toe"
  • Takfam, on 06/11/2009, -1/+6I just can't see her losing this case.
  • anexanhume, on 06/11/2009, -1/+5No matter what lens you choose to look at this through, eye'd be lashing out too.
  • rolf, on 06/11/2009, -0/+4This happens so much, before I ever go into the hospital, someone remind me to map my body with permanent markers - red for areas they absolutely do not go near, and green for the areas they are actually supposed to operate on.
  • GeekNurse, on 06/11/2009, -0/+4During my surgical rotation the circulating nurse and surgeon would confirm the operative anatomy using both the patient chart AND verbal confirmation with the patient during the pre-surgery conference. After this took place the surgeon would sign their name on the patients operative anatomy in sharpie marker.
  • AmnesiacJack, on 06/11/2009, -2/+6Eye'd still hit it.
  • inactive, on 06/11/2009, -0/+3In Soviet Russia, eye operates on you!

    Wait, that's not right either...
  • AmnesiacJack, on 06/11/2009, -2/+5Don't judge me diggers.

    Beggars can't choosers.
  • xsecretfiles, on 06/11/2009, -1/+3Eye for an eye
  • inactive, on 06/11/2009, -3/+5“Under our law, the judge decides on the compensation according to the defendant’s ability to pay. And our STATE medical institutions don’t have money for such payments in their budget,” explained Dmitry Aivazyan from the League for Protection of Patients’ Rights.
    ----
    Socialized health care at its best, coming soon to a hospital near you.
  • EddiePotato, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2You are a comedian of extraordinary vision.
  • TySchwab23, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2eye concur.
  • TonyTheTerrible, on 06/11/2009, -1/+3it doesn't take a rocket scientist to be a surgeon
    wait *****
  • inactive, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2Eye agree.
  • DeadFox1, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2the carret's supposed to be the nose . yuh- that's pretty bad.
  • pagit, on 06/11/2009, -3/+5good thing he has an extra
    oh wait....
  • ADifferentUsern, on 06/11/2009, -0/+23 in 1. Impresive.
  • Solkre, on 06/11/2009, -1/+3People are not and never will be perfect. The only amount of hoops that will keep surgeries 100% infallible to human error, are the ones with so many hoops the surgery never takes place.
  • reaper527, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2" Later, in our local clinic, pages were torn out of her medical records to cover up their colleagues’ blunders"

    thats why computers are so nice. on a computerized system, there would be no paper destruction.
  • t0x2c, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2Wait which arrow, the long one or the carret?
  • t0x2c, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2Only computer destruction. Martin, get the bat.
  • DeadFox1, on 06/11/2009, -0/+2 This is why I would utilize a sharpie in THIS MANNER:

    O O
    ↑ ^
    THIS
    EYE

    ASCII art is not my strength as one can see.
  • DankBuddz, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1Guess she should have kind-of saw it coming.
  • AlienMushroom, on 08/09/2009, -0/+1No, eye can't.
  • EddiePotato, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1I don't see what you did there.
  • inactive, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1FML
  • jbird32275, on 06/12/2009, -0/+1Owww oww.... I see what you did there!
  • Kylde, on 06/11/2009, -4/+5now THAT is having a bad day
  • mikemehak, on 06/12/2009, -0/+1clearly they should have put a giant X with permanent marker on the eyeball so they operate on the right one.

    This is what they do with limbs.
  • t0x2c, on 06/11/2009, -0/+1ROCKET SURGERY
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