Surgeon answers phone during operation

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Doc answers phone during surgery
NICK CALACOURAS
February 20th, 2009
ntnews.com.au

A PATIENT ran out of the operating theatre at a Territory hospital after the surgeon answered his mobile phone and started discussing what went wrong with a previous operation. The patient, who was still conscious and awaiting eye surgery, did not like the sound of what he was hearing and told the surgeon he would rather go blind before he bolted out the building. The incident, which occurred in 2007, was detailed in the Health Complaints Commissioners report tabled in Parliament this week.

The patient was later informed the previous operation led to a rare complication that was not the fault of the surgeon. The director of the clinic personally offered to performed the procedure if the patient wished to return.

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The thought of him legging it out of the hospital is great... haha

[eefanincan]

I think the patient was right

As part of one of my job, whenever I've worked in hospitals, I've had to call surgeons to get orders, etc. --- often I'd call to the O.R. to see if I could leave a message and this one surgeon would always take my call in the middle of surgery --- he would have the OR nurse put me on speaker phone. Now I'm hoping all of the clients were asleep

[pirtybirdy]

My Opthamologist would take calls from his finance guy and have conversations while examining me, or at some point would just stand there and talk. What a jerk.