This is one reason that I like the doctors/hospital where I used to live. Before surgery when the doctor comes in to speak with you, they bring a marker and have you mark on your own body where the surgery will take place. Definitely made me more secure knowing that they wouldn’t be cutting in the wrong spot.
I wonder if any of you have had to go through a serious surgery, because it’s obvious that she hasn’t. As someone who has had many producer that she’s talking about, she sounds like she’s speaking of a script.
That poor doctor, it really wasn’t his fault, it was the hospitals for making him stay awake for multiple days and still keep operating on people, if you haven’t slept in 36 hours obviously you will make mistakes, I can’t believe they’re still having medical workers do these long shifts when it causes so many problems
They are starting to pass more laws regarding this because it’s disgusting to have someone that exhausted cutting people open and trying to save lives. The hospitals don’t care, they just want as much money as they can get as fast as they can get it.
@@meerah7008 Then their on alert, they have to come asap when hospital "buzz" them. If something happens,no sleep for the doctor. So no, they havent a quality sleep.
@@nachoramirez1308 You dont get it. Their work responsibilty is desided,its not up to them. Either they work like they have been told , or they dont have a job. It is like that in very many hospital , actually . Its not like doctors deside themsrlf, when to work. You do know it is like that,right ?
My heart broke for Emmalyn Nguyen and her situation makes me beyond angry. You become a murderer when you make the choice not to help, delay the help, or hide any evidence of wrongdoing. Physically alive Emmalyn was still dead and the people responsible deserve no less than life in prison without parole. Ever.
Same thing happened to a girl in Mexico. She went down there to get a nose job, had the same reaction to the anesthesia, and the doctors didn’t call her an ambulance for 5-6 hours, WHILE HER BOYFRIEND WAS IN LOBBY flipping out because they wouldn’t let him in and she ended up passing away. The story is almost exact… it’s crazy.
Rhode islander here... Not only am I born and raised in little Rhodie, I've had surgeries done at Rhode Island hospital. The fact that we are the smallest state and have not one but two honorable mentions in this video is absolutely horrifying. Hysterically funny, but embarrassingly horrifying.
I’ve had 5 c sections, on the 4th (my daughter Delta) the epidural wore off, I told them I could start feeling it but they didn’t believe me. When I started throwing up I was in that much pain they decided to enquire and asked me what I thought I could feel. When I told them they panicked and administered more anaesthetic.
@@robbieallan6522 😂 yes after the 5th they eventually tied my tubes whilst they were in there. But leading up to the birth of my 5th I used to get horrible nightmares of the birth.
I am so sorry you weren't being listened to!!! With my first baby they had to do a second epidural because the tube was kinked... I can't imagine what you went through! Both of my C-sections we're rough but it sounds like a cake walk compared to yours!
@@jamilaycock5027 my first was an emergency so I was put under general anaesthetic. I woke up and had a huge black eye 🤷🏼♀️. Sorry to hear you had both births rough.
@@SarahLBanksWhen I had cervical cancer I had to get a hysterectomy. When i woke up I had a hole thru my tongue. I have no idea what they had in my throat but it took awhile to close.
I am terrified of being put under anesthetic, and have avoided it all together so far, and I also have had no surgeries.. let's just say this video heightened my fear! Thank you for all the work you put into getting the information you can to share with us!!
It’s not scary. Start with the dentist, then you know it will be light anesthesia. I’ve had 2 surgeries, I actually woke up during both but they put me back to sleep. I woke up but was so out of it I didn’t feel any pain.
I have been under anesthesia hundreds, literally hundreds, of times and although I still hate it; problems with anesthesia are rare and seldom life threatening.
I recently had surgery and when I got put under anesthesia my finger started shaking uncontrollably but the doctors were talking to me the entire time, so it was okay. And it felt like I was falling tbh 👁👄👁
As for leaving instruments in a patient; our surgical tray liners have outlines of each instrument, even sponges and itemization so that every part of the surgical team works towards making sure that each item is placed back on the tray before closing a patient up. There are many things that can be done to greatly reduce such errors.
I've heard quite a few horror stories of surgical instruments being left inside of patients so I've always been terrified of having any type of surgery. Well I ended up having to have a scheduled c-section with my second child and asked the surgeon to please double check that nothing is left inside of me before closing me up. The surgeon and nurses laughed but reassured me that they count everything together before surgery and after to make sure nothing gets left inside. It was comforting to know that they had protocols put in place to prevent even simple mistakes. Although he did make me nervous again when he pulled out my placenta and asked the nurses if I have vasa previa and they said yes it's in her chart.
Seriously! #1 surgery- Dr left an instrument inside me- hysterectomy #2- a gallstone was left in my pancreatic duct during my gallbladder surgery. #3- during a spinal fusion, my surgeon cut my iliac artery in half & passed out! All 3 times I almost died. #3, I bled out & coded. I shouldn't be here...
@@ashe3721 Lawsuits against doctors and hospitals are almost always useless. After what was a "problem" at a local hospital in a small town, I was told that they only had to meet a "standard" of care relative to a similar care level under similar instances. And short of malicious behavior, doctors and nurses and techs won't testify against each other. It looks so easy on TV but in real life, it is not at all the norm to win lawsuits against the medical establishment.
@@mamalupine7604 And depending where you live, the law protects doctors. I just found out a surgery I had on my foot was done wrong. Not only did I not need the surgery (I ended up breaking my other foot same place, same break about 6 months after the surgery and it healed on its own) but now all three screws are outside the bone, in the soft tissue and well, I am risking infection, possible loss of part of my foot, or another surgery (which I'm hesitant over and can't risk it) and the doctor gets away with botching it. All because in my state you have to experience something horrible like death or paralysis.
That's some scary stuff, I once had an operation and for about a minute after I was put under I could still hear the doctors telling the nurse to sterilise the area under my arm (was getting a nasty mole removed) and prepare for incision and at that point the anesthetic kicked in properly and I was under but I've had a fear ever since and I feel for the man who felt everything during his surgery a living nightmare it's truly horrible..
Oh my gosh, the breast implant story made me cry. My great aunt had them due to breast cancer, and was in the hospital for Covid, and on September, 16th, 2021 she passed away. The breast implants were made out of water, and one burst, filling her lungs and Covid caused issues with bleeding and so her lungs filled with blood and she suffocated. I miss you Auntie, rest well.
My sister had an ex boyfriend who’s younger brother sadly passed away from a medical accident… so one of the nurses that took care of his brother “accidentally” unplugged the machine that was keeping him alive (I’m not sure what). He had died shortly later… he was still in elementary school. The nurse and hospital were sued May he Rest In Peace 😔
I've heard of the story of Sherman anesthesia incident before, apparently when the doctors noticed he wasn't fully under they did some sort of extra procedure that purposely caused him amnesia, but told him after that there were no complications during surgery. His subconscious kept having flashbacks causing his mental breakdown leading to his suicide. It took a while after his death that the truth finally came out, so sad.... all these stories are horrible
He was given a memory wiping med but his body still remembered the physical trauma and they took the thing that showed the surgery and stuff used they took it to a different doctor and found out there was a amnesia med that shouldn’t be there
Well hear my brother's story when my mom was on labour the doctor became so late ....that made my brother to suffer he can't move,talk at do anything on his own... If the doctor was not late he would be like a normal child....
I live in Rhode Island and have a rare congenital brain condition. It needed treatment 10+ years ago, so I interviewed neurological teams at MGH, NYP, & RIH. The teams at MGH & NYP had very similar treatment plans and actually recommended each other. Those were two of the most highly regarded surgeons in the world. The team at RIH had a much more aggressive plan that just sounded like a little bit too much for me, so MGH it was. I’m still glad for that decision. Highly recommended if you need neurological treatment for something weird!
My gallbladder surgery 2016. The doc damaged a nerve surrounding my ribs and I’ve since become disabled since then. Now I’ve got an implanted pulse generator in my buttock going to my spine to help with the pain as I’m now a single mother of 3 boys as my (now) ex-husband felt it was too much work when I was bedridden due to the pain. Now my 66yo dad is my caregiver who does the shopping etc. that I’m still unable to do.
We have a lot in common! I'm on my fourth pulse gen (I got my first 20 yrs ago) for nerve damage/pain from a congenital spinal tumor, so my 70 y/o father is my caregiver who does all the shopping, etc. I don't know how you raise 3 kids with chronic pain, so you must be strong!
My orthopedic surgeon forgot to do a spinal fusion on me when he removed my discs because they were shattered and my whole spine is sitting on one disc a quarter of a disc actually and I didn't start having problems with it until 2013 come to find out he was drunk when he did my surgery
In May 2017 I had my second mastectomy for breast cancer. When the surgery was over, the instrument count didn't match. The doctor called for a portable chest x-ray but nothing was found. Instead of just calling it, he opted to have fluoroscopy performed which again showed no abnormalities. Haven't had any problems since and am very grateful he spent the extra time.
My husband's grandmother had breast cancer, the doctor cut off the wrong breast. She didn't sue, but the doctor made sure she had the best care at no cost to her.
Hello I'm from Farmington NM and a year ago my grandma passed away from an aneurysm. She was taken to the hospital in San Juan county were they keep her there for 5 hours then took her to Albuquerque NM where the doctors were able to relieve the pressure on her brain. They were able to stop the bleeding but she never woke up three months later the hospital had an ambulance drive her to Farmington NM where she stayed for a nother 2 1/2 months then kicked her out cause her insurance wasn't gonna pay any more. So without medical equipment my grandpa drove her to Utah and when they arrived she had had a stroke the doctor in Utah said that the hospital over in Farmington shouldn't have released her. But sadly my grandma passed away two days before Christmas of 2020. I'm still upset about how she was treated she was 73 years old.
Yea, I thought that was a requirement... unless some of these happened a while ago I'd be shocked as to how that could get past the many safety checks that are in the process
I don't know how it goes in the USA hospitals, but in Czech republic the surgeons and surgical nurses are responsible for counting the material and instrument used during surgery. They count up everything before they sew together the surgical wound.
@@christinesmith5706 I was just confused from the original post. It sounds like just some hospitals have someone (else, not the nurses or doctors) to count everything used.
Many problems contribute to medical errors, the documentary finds, from fatigue of medical staff due to overwork and grueling shifts, to poor communication among employees in hospitals, to a culture in health care that often does not accept accountability for mistakes.🥰🥰🥰
Now don’t get me wrong here, I see absolutely nothing wrong with cosmetic surgery or body modification procedures if it makes the person feel confident and good about themselves. I personally am older and have many brands, tattoos and facial piercings because they allow me to express myself as an individual and they make me feel good about myself. But it can become an addiction, and a person has to realize when the line is crossed. I realized that I have a body modification addiction with my piercings tats ect. So I allow myself just one new one a year, and I have to choose if it’s a tat or a piercing, I can’t have both. I see no problem with people continuing to “look younger” using Botox and cosmetic surgery either as TBH, my husband is 20 years younger then me, and if i could afford it, I would get some cosmetic surgery done.( though my hubby tells me it’s just stupid and I’m beautiful just the way I am) . He fully supports my one tat or piercing thing a year because it makes me happy. But he’s against me getting like Botox or “lifts” because he says “ that’s just not the real me”. But the piercings and tats ARE the real me so he’s supportive of those. I guess the bottom line is that you don’t need to change yourself to impress or be accepted by others, the only person you really need to impress is the one looking back at you in the mirror.
Your husband sounds like a decent guy and aslong as you feel good about how you look you shouldn't change for anyone and your husband I'm sure would agree, so what's it gonna be in the year 2022 tat or piercing?
My father worked in perfusion for heart surgeons for many years. I actually asked him about the sponge one, wondering how people could leave things in someone and if that ever happened when he worked. He said yes, it did, but the doctor always counted all of his instruments before and after, so all he had to do "all?" was open him back up, get the gauze sponge (ironically) and then they were good. Dad said always count before and after, and you'll be alright.
I had a friend who went in for a very simple dental procedure. He was put under anesthesia and the nurse anesthetist decided that this was a good time to take a phone call and left him unmonitored. He stopped breathing and died.
I had my tubes tied and during the surgery (I was awake) the pain blockers wore off and I had to scream with everything I had to get them to understand I was in serious pain. This was at Naval Medical Center San Diego. Terrible experience.
I am 11 years old, I have friend who is 10. A few days ago she had a headache then couldn’t move her limbs. She had a blood clot in her brain. She had a stroke and is in a coma. They don’t know if she is gonna make it. So please pray no deserves to die this young
❤️ Great job, love this channel!! Medical knowledge when you're going under the knife is a terrible thing! Even worse is medical knowledge when a loved one is going under is even worse! Ask questions, alot of questions first. If the medical staff gets annoyed or mad, that's a huge tip off guys! Things go wrong more often than you realize. Yikes! Gives me so much anxiety even thinking about it! 😬
I had an experience where I went into surgery and woke up with a bandage on the wrong part of my body. The "doctor" wasn't sure what was wrong with me and just picked something to cut on.
I was having cataract surgery done on my eyes. First one went smooth. Secound one not so much the dr. Out of Pittsburg came to the VA once a month and performed eye surgery. He had allot of patients the same day I had my secound eye done. He was in such a hurry that my eye wasn't numbed enough. I felt all the cuts!
When I was under treatment for a disease it caused a whole host of issues. One I became sever anemic. I complained for several weeks but I received the same answer that since the treatment failed I was just suffering from affects from the disease returning. I disagreed but they dug in. I called them and said I barely stand up without failing and cannot think clearly or remember conversations. The nurse looked at my blood work and said to me they can hardly believe I am on my feet and they have never seen a conscious patient with the blood values I had. They told me to get to the hospital immediately and go to the security office and not the ER because they were instructed to take me up to a room as quickly as I could get there. I had to have an emergency transfusion due to and extreme amount of blood loss. This hospital is one of the best in the US and the Dr. Is the top guy in his field. BE YOUR OWN ADVOCATE
I had an uncle who served in the navy between the Korean War and the Vietnam War. His VA doctor told him he had a low grade leukemia, nothing to worry about. Wasn't until later they found he had stage 4 colon cancer. He died despite surgery, chemo and radiation. I miss him.
@@michelefritchie6198 That should never have happened... I am so sorry for your family’s loss, Michele...💔 I miss my brother even after 53 years...❤️🙏🏻
Why would a doctor at a hospital call an ambulance- *the taxi to bring you to a hospital* be called into a surgery room? The urine one sounds sketchy, I have liver failure and my urine doesn't look like water. It's very dark and stinks. But mine is alcoholic liver so it could be different, I just don't see someone smelling that and think it's okay to consume.
A plastic surgery suite was probably not in a hospital, and it may have been a sketchy one at that, and urine can definitely be close to water lacking conditions and drinking a lot of water
Lost knee at Air Force Academy. Decades ago a cadet went to the Academy for knee surgery. The doctor operated on the wrong knee(there had to be a second surgery), The NEXT WEEK a second student went in for the same knee surgery ( a sports injury). The second student wrote on the good knee "Wrong Knee". HE got 'points' for being 'rude to a superior officer'.
My step-mother needed surgery and afterwards, she still felt terrible. She went back to the hospital and they had an x-ray on her. She had 2 medical knives left in her.
My mom had sponges left inside of her after my birth c-section and she passed away from staff infection when I was 2 weeks old . They didn't find the sponges till after her death. RIP mama I will meet you one fine day.
I once worked on a case where the doctors removed the wrong kidney from the patient! Her diseased kidney was left in place while the good one was removed. Obvious malpractice. She got a nice settlement from the doctor and his malpractice carrier.
As a nurse & patient who has been under the knife 56 times. Nothing has happened. I am sad to say your delivery of these tragic messages just scares more people, it is rare that things occur with the hundreds of thousands of surgeries that occur daily. Walk a mile in our shoes…it’s easier than one thinks.still heartbreaking & sad yes.
I agree! Every other patient is very quick to demand a high profile proficiency and is often drawn to think that if the worst comes to pass, the health care worker deserves condemnation. Making mistakes is not far from human nature, neither is it from a doctor/nurse. This besmirching of our care givers is at the very least wicked, bearing in mind that they are at work to alleviate our suffering. Very unappreciative!
Number 8 happened to my father years ago. He had a medical pump in his stomach which hooked into his spine and delivered narcotic medication to his bloodstream. Several weeks after undergoing surgery to replace this pump, my father's body began to reject a fibrous material from the incision site. The surgeons had inserted the new pump without removing the "medical sock" it was kept in. So, my father had to have another operation to remove the foreign material from his stomach. Unfortunately, we were advised against seeking legal action, and my father was never compensated for his suffering. My father passed away due to lung cancer nearly a decade later, after having 18 operations on his neck and back in his lifetime. We're all human and make mistakes, but part of being an adult is owning up to your mistakes.
When I had my second son via c-section surgery I felt everything. After he was pulled out my anesthesiologist looked at me and knocked me out. From what I was told I was extremely pall and I woke up with a low heart rate. I felt the doctor cutting my stomach open yanking him out, my husband told me my face turned white in the process. I was knocked out afterwards by the anesthesiologist and I was very grateful for that. He let me see my son. I also have had brain surgery, and you have to awake for that. My brain surgeon was awesome though. I felt weird tugs because you have to be awake, but no pain. I feel sorry for these people that lost their lives from incompetent doctors.
That happened to a little girl named Sally. This happened between 1900s and 1950s I think, but she had a kidney burst and there next door neighbor was a doctor. When there neighbor came in he layed Sally on the and put on anemia but, as he work on her, she woke up he couldn't stop doing surgery on her. She died that night and only attacks men but you can find the house in Kansas.
I remember hearing about a lady who was a veteran and how after her operation the doctor had left surgical tools inside her torso and in the end it madce her unfertile she wasn't able to ever have children.
literally just saw a tiktok of a woman who went to the er after being told she was fine after having pain after giving birth, they found gauz in her lady parts
I have done 1 surgery to something inside my nose that couldn't let me breath. Tbh the surgery went very well since i got to the best surgeons. They even sent me vanilla ice cream :) So im happy with my doctors , since it even had a TV where when i was done i could watch :) And im feeling great having these doctors and since i dont live in the UK or USA im fine!
How utterly horrified I am seeing these things go so wrong. Just makes me so scared and sorry for these people. Thank god my hospital in the UK is very good
one time I went to get a block in my jaw for pain until I could get to a dentist in a few days and the block they used fell out of the doctor's hand and end up in my belly, so my belly went numb instead of my jaw also another time I went in for falling on my butt and a week later I was back at the hospital with a staph infection due to when they looked my butt the doctor scratched me I end up having to have a wound vac on me for 4 weeks cause of what they did and antibiotic that I was allergic too
Damn, poor Arturo. I have scoliosis and have rods along my spine. I got several good years post surgery. Now, I'm in daily nausea inducing pain and my surgery went RIGHT! I can't imagine what he went through.
Recently, my step dad had a tumor on his lung. He had surgery to remove it, but after three months he found out he still has the tumor because the surgeon took out healthy tissue, in a different part of his lung. A friend of mine had a sponge left inside her shoulder. She died of sepsis because it was infected but the doctors never looked for the sight of the infection.
Why the hell was there an open cup of urine just sitting on the guys beside table? That's just so weird and unsanitary. I know he probably had to give a urine sample but those cups usually do not look like normal drinking cups and typically have lids too
Each surgery I had the nurses triple checked the location where the surgery was supposed to happen. Actually I think they checked even more. These doctors and nurses on this list are horrible and scares the crap out of me
Surgeons speak to the patient before going into operating room. This is done to check patient’s acuity, to verify information and mark the area of operation. That procedure has been in place for years. We also make sure that every single piece of equipment is accounted for. This is done to make sure we didn’t leave an instrument or gauze inside the patient or thrown in the trash. Note there are hundreds of instruments and other instruments.
When I had my second c section the spinal didn't completely numb my right side, so, they went ahead and finished getting the baby out them overdosed me on pain meds and I stopped breathing them have me narcan and I was in extreme pain for four hours because they couldn't give me anything until the narcan was out of my system. But falsified my chart and could not sue. Because of that particular c section four years later I had an ectopic pregnancy because in a rush they threw my intestines back in and then they scarred to one of my tubes. Again small town, falsified documents, unable to sue
I.E. leaving medical instruments/supplies inside a patient. This comes from crappy procedural practice. As a retired surgery nurse 40+ years ago, we counted every sponge we used, both as we handed them to the doctor and before we closed the patient. We actually wrote the # down. Ditto instruments. There is no excuse for this to happen except negligent medical practice.
This is one reason that I like the doctors/hospital where I used to live. Before surgery when the doctor comes in to speak with you, they bring a marker and have you mark on your own body where the surgery will take place. Definitely made me more secure knowing that they wouldn’t be cutting in the wrong spot.
Simple ideas are sometimes the most efficient way of avoiding problems.
I've recently had surgery on my arm and the surgeon drew a huge arrow to indicate which arm to operate on. It took days to get it off 😂
@@kayevans2964 well I’d say the marking was much better than being operated on the wrong arm. 🤣😂
@@bbayley3121 it sure was 😂😂
Good Idea!
i love how this host is so sympathetic with the victims. she isn’t emotionless.
Me to she’s really sweet
Yesss
I really like her too; she delivers the information but you can tell that she has a heart.
I wonder if any of you have had to go through a serious surgery, because it’s obvious that she hasn’t. As someone who has had many producer that she’s talking about, she sounds like she’s speaking of a script.
right some hosts make jokes out of the situations n stuff it’s crazy
That poor doctor, it really wasn’t his fault, it was the hospitals for making him stay awake for multiple days and still keep operating on people, if you haven’t slept in 36 hours obviously you will make mistakes, I can’t believe they’re still having medical workers do these long shifts when it causes so many problems
They are starting to pass more laws regarding this because it’s disgusting to have someone that exhausted cutting people open and trying to save lives. The hospitals don’t care, they just want as much money as they can get as fast as they can get it.
You know they actually go home and sleep and come back in the morning right?
No excuse they should not operate if there tired because its other peoples lives there messing with
@@meerah7008
Then their on alert, they have to come asap when hospital "buzz" them. If something happens,no sleep for the doctor.
So no, they havent a quality sleep.
@@nachoramirez1308
You dont get it. Their work responsibilty is desided,its not up to them.
Either they work like they have been told , or they dont have a job. It is like that in very many hospital , actually .
Its not like doctors deside themsrlf, when to work.
You do know it is like that,right ?
My heart broke for Emmalyn Nguyen and her situation makes me beyond angry. You become a murderer when you make the choice not to help, delay the help, or hide any evidence of wrongdoing. Physically alive Emmalyn was still dead and the people responsible deserve no less than life in prison without parole. Ever.
Same thing happened to a girl in Mexico. She went down there to get a nose job, had the same reaction to the anesthesia, and the doctors didn’t call her an ambulance for 5-6 hours, WHILE HER BOYFRIEND WAS IN LOBBY flipping out because they wouldn’t let him in and she ended up passing away. The story is almost exact… it’s crazy.
@Bert 238 Yes he did. He didn’t get her medical attention he couldn’t give! A doctor denying medical attention?
Wait when? I don’t think she was in the video
@@iLoveBread_101 She's the second story, the botched breast implants.
@@Deedoof oh ty
Rhode islander here... Not only am I born and raised in little Rhodie, I've had surgeries done at Rhode Island hospital. The fact that we are the smallest state and have not one but two honorable mentions in this video is absolutely horrifying. Hysterically funny, but embarrassingly horrifying.
this comment lol.......i have to know if it was the same medical team and doctor
Same here 🥲
It also made me scratch my head and start researching if RIH is really the top hospital. I prefer Miriam if I have a choice.
Born and raised in Newport I’m a Rhode too lol
I’ve had 5 c sections, on the 4th (my daughter Delta) the epidural wore off, I told them I could start feeling it but they didn’t believe me. When I started throwing up I was in that much pain they decided to enquire and asked me what I thought I could feel. When I told them they panicked and administered more anaesthetic.
I hope they sorted out the problem afterwards?
@@robbieallan6522 😂 yes after the 5th they eventually tied my tubes whilst they were in there. But leading up to the birth of my 5th I used to get horrible nightmares of the birth.
I am so sorry you weren't being listened to!!! With my first baby they had to do a second epidural because the tube was kinked... I can't imagine what you went through! Both of my C-sections we're rough but it sounds like a cake walk compared to yours!
@@jamilaycock5027 my first was an emergency so I was put under general anaesthetic. I woke up and had a huge black eye 🤷🏼♀️. Sorry to hear you had both births rough.
@@SarahLBanksWhen I had cervical cancer I had to get a hysterectomy. When i woke up I had a hole thru my tongue. I have no idea what they had in my throat but it took awhile to close.
I am terrified of being put under anesthetic, and have avoided it all together so far, and I also have had no surgeries.. let's just say this video heightened my fear! Thank you for all the work you put into getting the information you can to share with us!!
Same with me...I ha e refused several surgeries...I just cant!
It’s not scary. Start with the dentist, then you know it will be light anesthesia. I’ve had 2 surgeries, I actually woke up during both but they put me back to sleep. I woke up but was so out of it I didn’t feel any pain.
I have been under anesthesia hundreds, literally hundreds, of times and although I still hate it; problems with anesthesia are rare and seldom life threatening.
I’ve had two surgeries-one under General anesthesia. Tbh the general one was the best sleep ever lol.
I recently had surgery and when I got put under anesthesia my finger started shaking uncontrollably but the doctors were talking to me the entire time, so it was okay. And it felt like I was falling tbh 👁👄👁
As for leaving instruments in a patient; our surgical tray liners have outlines of each instrument, even sponges and itemization so that every part of the surgical team works towards making sure that each item is placed back on the tray before closing a patient up. There are many things that can be done to greatly reduce such errors.
I've heard quite a few horror stories of surgical instruments being left inside of patients so I've always been terrified of having any type of surgery. Well I ended up having to have a scheduled c-section with my second child and asked the surgeon to please double check that nothing is left inside of me before closing me up. The surgeon and nurses laughed but reassured me that they count everything together before surgery and after to make sure nothing gets left inside. It was comforting to know that they had protocols put in place to prevent even simple mistakes. Although he did make me nervous again when he pulled out my placenta and asked the nurses if I have vasa previa and they said yes it's in her chart.
Seriously! #1 surgery- Dr left an instrument inside me- hysterectomy
#2- a gallstone was left in my pancreatic duct during my gallbladder surgery.
#3- during a spinal fusion, my surgeon cut my iliac artery in half & passed out!
All 3 times I almost died. #3, I bled out & coded. I shouldn't be here...
Wow. Whatever hospital(s) you used were horrible..! Good grief! Once is like... yeah, okay... but THREE?!
I- omg god bless you I swear I would sue them-
@@ashe3721 Lawsuits against doctors and hospitals are almost always useless. After what was a "problem" at a local hospital in a small town, I was told that they only had to meet a "standard" of care relative to a similar care level under similar instances. And short of malicious behavior, doctors and nurses and techs won't testify against each other. It looks so easy on TV but in real life, it is not at all the norm to win lawsuits against the medical establishment.
@@mamalupine7604 And depending where you live, the law protects doctors. I just found out a surgery I had on my foot was done wrong. Not only did I not need the surgery (I ended up breaking my other foot same place, same break about 6 months after the surgery and it healed on its own) but now all three screws are outside the bone, in the soft tissue and well, I am risking infection, possible loss of part of my foot, or another surgery (which I'm hesitant over and can't risk it) and the doctor gets away with botching it. All because in my state you have to experience something horrible like death or paralysis.
You have a guardian angel or something. There is no way you don't.
That's some scary stuff, I once had an operation and for about a minute after I was put under I could still hear the doctors telling the nurse to sterilise the area under my arm (was getting a nasty mole removed) and prepare for incision and at that point the anesthetic kicked in properly and I was under but I've had a fear ever since and I feel for the man who felt everything during his surgery a living nightmare it's truly horrible..
The doctor that carved his initials into that lady's stomach... Dude WTF?!?!!!
He must have lost his mind!
js I don't think he would've done that to a man
Like uhm, what!? That’s just creepy and weird
@@emapple8298 well most men don’t have c sections so i guess you’re right
@@strawberrysundae_megan exactly bruh 💀
Oh my gosh, the breast implant story made me cry. My great aunt had them due to breast cancer, and was in the hospital for Covid, and on September, 16th, 2021 she passed away. The breast implants were made out of water, and one burst, filling her lungs and Covid caused issues with bleeding and so her lungs filled with blood and she suffocated. I miss you Auntie, rest well.
My sister had an ex boyfriend who’s younger brother sadly passed away from a medical accident…
so one of the nurses that took care of his brother “accidentally” unplugged the machine that was keeping him alive (I’m not sure what). He had died shortly later… he was still in elementary school. The nurse and hospital were sued
May he Rest In Peace 😔
I very sorry
omg that's scary😢
😭😭😭 that’s so sad 😭😭😭
That nurse should’ve gotten arrested!
That stupid nurse did that on purpose. I hope her own kids die from a similar fate. If she has kids that is...
I've heard of the story of Sherman anesthesia incident before, apparently when the doctors noticed he wasn't fully under they did some sort of extra procedure that purposely caused him amnesia, but told him after that there were no complications during surgery. His subconscious kept having flashbacks causing his mental breakdown leading to his suicide. It took a while after his death that the truth finally came out, so sad.... all these stories are horrible
He was given a memory wiping med but his body still remembered the physical trauma and they took the thing that showed the surgery and stuff used they took it to a different doctor and found out there was a amnesia med that shouldn’t be there
Well hear my brother's story when my mom was on labour the doctor became so late ....that made my brother to suffer he can't move,talk at do anything on his own... If the doctor was not late he would be like a normal child....
@@Iris-cg2cl I am so sorry to hear that you guys could sue the hospital for not being prepared
I live in Rhode Island and have a rare congenital brain condition. It needed treatment 10+ years ago, so I interviewed neurological teams at MGH, NYP, & RIH. The teams at MGH & NYP had very similar treatment plans and actually recommended each other. Those were two of the most highly regarded surgeons in the world. The team at RIH had a much more aggressive plan that just sounded like a little bit too much for me, so MGH it was. I’m still glad for that decision. Highly recommended if you need neurological treatment for something weird!
I had a brain stroke multiple times and I had to learn how to walk again 🙃 I thank you for the videos I love them
Glad you feel better 😊🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
That makes you an incredibly strong person!
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So sorry that you have gone through that.Stay strong.
@@willowhere 🙂
My gallbladder surgery 2016. The doc damaged a nerve surrounding my ribs and I’ve since become disabled since then.
Now I’ve got an implanted pulse generator in my buttock going to my spine to help with the pain as I’m now a single mother of 3 boys as my (now) ex-husband felt it was too much work when I was bedridden due to the pain. Now my 66yo dad is my caregiver who does the shopping etc. that I’m still unable to do.
We have a lot in common! I'm on my fourth pulse gen (I got my first 20 yrs ago) for nerve damage/pain from a congenital spinal tumor, so my 70 y/o father is my caregiver who does all the shopping, etc. I don't know how you raise 3 kids with chronic pain, so you must be strong!
My orthopedic surgeon forgot to do a spinal fusion on me when he removed my discs because they were shattered and my whole spine is sitting on one disc a quarter of a disc actually and I didn't start having problems with it until 2013 come to find out he was drunk when he did my surgery
@Paige Lovelace, I’m so sorry you went through that.
In May 2017 I had my second mastectomy for breast cancer. When the surgery was over, the instrument count didn't match. The doctor called for a portable chest x-ray but nothing was found. Instead of just calling it, he opted to have fluoroscopy performed which again showed no abnormalities. Haven't had any problems since and am very grateful he spent the extra time.
My husband's grandmother had breast cancer, the doctor cut off the wrong breast. She didn't sue, but the doctor made sure she had the best care at no cost to her.
That’s nice of the doctor. What happened? Did she get the other breast removed too?
@@JZJ7777 probably
Hello I'm from Farmington NM and a year ago my grandma passed away from an aneurysm. She was taken to the hospital in San Juan county were they keep her there for 5 hours then took her to Albuquerque NM where the doctors were able to relieve the pressure on her brain. They were able to stop the bleeding but she never woke up three months later the hospital had an ambulance drive her to Farmington NM where she stayed for a nother 2 1/2 months then kicked her out cause her insurance wasn't gonna pay any more. So without medical equipment my grandpa drove her to Utah and when they arrived she had had a stroke the doctor in Utah said that the hospital over in Farmington shouldn't have released her. But sadly my grandma passed away two days before Christmas of 2020. I'm still upset about how she was treated she was 73 years old.
I'm so sorry about your loss..
That is just awful and criminal. I am so sorry.
This is now y it is mandatory to have a "huddle" in the operating room with the patient and surgery staff to make sure everyone is on the right page
That's why alot of hospitals have someone to count everything used and counted to make sure it adds up at the end of surgery.
Yea, I thought that was a requirement... unless some of these happened a while ago I'd be shocked as to how that could get past the many safety checks that are in the process
And before you close the patient
I don't know how it goes in the USA hospitals, but in Czech republic the surgeons and surgical nurses are responsible for counting the material and instrument used during surgery. They count up everything before they sew together the surgical wound.
@@marketak5141 the nurses do it here in UsA . They all have their own jobs in the surgical room.
@@christinesmith5706 I was just confused from the original post. It sounds like just some hospitals have someone (else, not the nurses or doctors) to count everything used.
14:03
“Make sure you’re not eating”
Me: Looks down at my salad
Imma just pause this real quick-
Haha
Many problems contribute to medical errors, the documentary finds, from fatigue of medical staff due to overwork and grueling shifts, to poor communication among employees in hospitals, to a culture in health care that often does not accept accountability for mistakes.🥰🥰🥰
Even so, it doesn't inspire much faith in the medical profession, does it? Just kiddin'. ;)
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Scoobie Doobie Doo!! Love the shirt and the videos. Keep them coming!
Oh my goodness imagine waking up with no legs 😱🦵🍗
Leaving medical instruments inside accidentally is more common then you think.
My heart broke at the man who had to end his life. I am done with this sad video :(
agreed over a surgery that scared him... god :(
I’ve had a few surgeries over the past 3 years. Thank God I had them prior to watching this video.
Now don’t get me wrong here, I see absolutely nothing wrong with cosmetic surgery or body modification procedures if it makes the person feel confident and good about themselves. I personally am older and have many brands, tattoos and facial piercings because they allow me to express myself as an individual and they make me feel good about myself. But it can become an addiction, and a person has to realize when the line is crossed. I realized that I have a body modification addiction with my piercings tats ect. So I allow myself just one new one a year, and I have to choose if it’s a tat or a piercing, I can’t have both. I see no problem with people continuing to “look younger” using Botox and cosmetic surgery either as TBH, my husband is 20 years younger then me, and if i could afford it, I would get some cosmetic surgery done.( though my hubby tells me it’s just stupid and I’m beautiful just the way I am) . He fully supports my one tat or piercing thing a year because it makes me happy. But he’s against me getting like Botox or “lifts” because he says “ that’s just not the real me”. But the piercings and tats ARE the real me so he’s supportive of those. I guess the bottom line is that you don’t need to change yourself to impress or be accepted by others, the only person you really need to impress is the one looking back at you in the mirror.
Your husband sounds like a decent guy and aslong as you feel good about how you look you shouldn't change for anyone and your husband I'm sure would agree, so what's it gonna be in the year 2022 tat or piercing?
If only that one woman could’ve listened to that, then she wouldn’t have ruined her face with injections and cooking oil.
My father worked in perfusion for heart surgeons for many years. I actually asked him about the sponge one, wondering how people could leave things in someone and if that ever happened when he worked. He said yes, it did, but the doctor always counted all of his instruments before and after, so all he had to do "all?" was open him back up, get the gauze sponge (ironically) and then they were good. Dad said always count before and after, and you'll be alright.
Looks like they didn’t recount all their medical supplies when they were done….smh🤦🏻♀️
Shocked to hear a Doctor admit that he did wrong. It's the usual for them to pass the buck.
11:55 I heard a story of a welding student who decided to 'weld' his initials on the canisters, ya, BIG explosion.
I had a friend who went in for a very simple dental procedure. He was put under anesthesia and the nurse anesthetist decided that this was a good time to take a phone call and left him unmonitored. He stopped breathing and died.
1:57 well, thanks for that, I never wanna undergo surgery now
YES!!! More videos🖤🖤🖤
These really be making me not wanna get any type of surgery
I had my tubes tied and during the surgery (I was awake) the pain blockers wore off and I had to scream with everything I had to get them to understand I was in serious pain. This was at Naval Medical Center San Diego. Terrible experience.
I am 11 years old, I have friend who is 10. A few days ago she had a headache then couldn’t move her limbs. She had a blood clot in her brain. She had a stroke and is in a coma. They don’t know if she is gonna make it. So please pray no deserves to die this young
❤️ Great job, love this channel!! Medical knowledge when you're going under the knife is a terrible thing! Even worse is medical knowledge when a loved one is going under is even worse! Ask questions, alot of questions first. If the medical staff gets annoyed or mad, that's a huge tip off guys! Things go wrong more often than you realize. Yikes! Gives me so much anxiety even thinking about it! 😬
I work at a vet hospital but I love when clients ask questions because it shows they care and want to be knowledgeable.
I had an experience where I went into surgery and woke up with a bandage on the wrong part of my body. The "doctor" wasn't sure what was wrong with me and just picked something to cut on.
Thank you to the host for projecting my own horror at all these incidents
I had a surgeon cut me on the wrong side of my stomach. So instead of having one incision I has 2.
*have*
Awww ik the feeling
at least its syetrical now
Excellent video today!
Hello I love This Video And This was Spooky🌑
They are supposed to count all instruments & supplies before closing a patient. Ego has a lot to do with many medical mistakes
I was having cataract surgery done on my eyes. First one went smooth. Secound one not so much the dr. Out of Pittsburg came to the VA once a month and performed eye surgery. He had allot of patients the same day I had my secound eye done. He was in such a hurry that my eye wasn't numbed enough. I felt all the cuts!
I'd sue the hell out of the doctors
When I was under treatment for a disease it caused a whole host of issues. One I became sever anemic. I complained for several weeks but I received the same answer that since the treatment failed I was just suffering from affects from the disease returning. I disagreed but they dug in. I called them and said I barely stand up without failing and cannot think clearly or remember conversations.
The nurse looked at my blood work and said to me they can hardly believe I am on my feet and they have never seen a conscious patient with the blood values I had. They told me to get to the hospital immediately and go to the security office and not the ER because they were instructed to take me up to a room as quickly as I could get there. I had to have an emergency transfusion due to and extreme amount of blood loss. This hospital is one of the best in the US and the Dr. Is the top guy in his field.
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Horrible! Correctly said, Never should have happen! This never can be called an accident! Pure Negligence!
Seen so many mistakes at VA hospitals... Our veterans deserve better medical care than they sometimes receive!! ❤️🇺🇸❤️
I had an uncle who served in the navy between the Korean War and the Vietnam War. His VA doctor told him he had a low grade leukemia, nothing to worry about. Wasn't until later they found he had stage 4 colon cancer. He died despite surgery, chemo and radiation. I miss him.
@@michelefritchie6198 That should never have happened... I am so sorry for your family’s loss, Michele...💔 I miss my brother even after 53 years...❤️🙏🏻
Why would a doctor at a hospital call an ambulance- *the taxi to bring you to a hospital* be called into a surgery room?
The urine one sounds sketchy, I have liver failure and my urine doesn't look like water. It's very dark and stinks. But mine is alcoholic liver so it could be different, I just don't see someone smelling that and think it's okay to consume.
A plastic surgery suite was probably not in a hospital, and it may have been a sketchy one at that, and urine can definitely be close to water lacking conditions and drinking a lot of water
Lost knee at Air Force Academy. Decades ago a cadet went to the Academy for knee surgery. The doctor operated on the wrong knee(there had to be a second surgery), The NEXT WEEK a second student went in for the same knee surgery ( a sports injury). The second student wrote on the good knee "Wrong Knee". HE got 'points' for being 'rude to a superior officer'.
Lmao... This was me and my OC on Wednesday 🤣🤣🤣
I've woke up during my surgery more than once.
My step-mother needed surgery and afterwards, she still felt terrible. She went back to the hospital and they had an x-ray on her. She had 2 medical knives left in her.
Great video, love the Scooby shirt
See the reasons why I don't go to the hospital at all if I'm not dying I'm not going..
Same
Lindsay’s Harley Davidson top and lace bralette are so cute 🥰
My mom had sponges left inside of her after my birth c-section and she passed away from staff infection when I was 2 weeks old . They didn't find the sponges till after her death. RIP mama I will meet you one fine day.
I once worked on a case where the doctors removed the wrong kidney from the patient! Her diseased kidney was left in place while the good one was removed. Obvious malpractice. She got a nice settlement from the doctor and his malpractice carrier.
As a nurse & patient who has been under the knife 56 times. Nothing has happened. I am sad to say your delivery of these tragic messages just scares more people, it is rare that things occur with the hundreds of thousands of surgeries that occur daily. Walk a mile in our shoes…it’s easier than one thinks.still heartbreaking & sad yes.
I agree!
Every other patient is very quick to demand a high profile proficiency and is often drawn to think that if the worst comes to pass, the health care worker deserves condemnation. Making mistakes is not far from human nature, neither is it from a doctor/nurse. This besmirching of our care givers is at the very least wicked, bearing in mind that they are at work to alleviate our suffering. Very unappreciative!
"Should have went" Should be "should have *gone*."
Number 8 happened to my father years ago. He had a medical pump in his stomach which hooked into his spine and delivered narcotic medication to his bloodstream. Several weeks after undergoing surgery to replace this pump, my father's body began to reject a fibrous material from the incision site. The surgeons had inserted the new pump without removing the "medical sock" it was kept in. So, my father had to have another operation to remove the foreign material from his stomach. Unfortunately, we were advised against seeking legal action, and my father was never compensated for his suffering. My father passed away due to lung cancer nearly a decade later, after having 18 operations on his neck and back in his lifetime. We're all human and make mistakes, but part of being an adult is owning up to your mistakes.
Why would you not listen to people who told you Not to seek legal action???
When I had my second son via c-section surgery I felt everything. After he was pulled out my anesthesiologist looked at me and knocked me out. From what I was told I was extremely pall and I woke up with a low heart rate. I felt the doctor cutting my stomach open yanking him out, my husband told me my face turned white in the process. I was knocked out afterwards by the anesthesiologist and I was very grateful for that. He let me see my son.
I also have had brain surgery, and you have to awake for that. My brain surgeon was awesome though. I felt weird tugs because you have to be awake, but no pain. I feel sorry for these people that lost their lives from incompetent doctors.
I feel so sorry for all of these people who died because of this
That happened to a little girl named Sally. This happened between 1900s and 1950s I think, but she had a kidney burst and there next door neighbor was a doctor. When there neighbor came in he layed Sally on the and put on anemia but, as he work on her, she woke up he couldn't stop doing surgery on her. She died that night and only attacks men but you can find the house in Kansas.
How the hell is embalming fluid even in an operating room??!!
I knew someone who had a protractor left inside him. The surgical nurse is supposed to keep track of all of the instruments used.
how do you "get the wrong leg"?
I remember hearing about a lady who was a veteran and how after her operation the doctor had left surgical tools inside her torso and in the end it madce her unfertile she wasn't able to ever have children.
literally just saw a tiktok of a woman who went to the er after being told she was fine after having pain after giving birth, they found gauz in her lady parts
I have done 1 surgery to something inside my nose that couldn't let me breath. Tbh the surgery went very well since i got to the best surgeons. They even sent me vanilla ice cream :) So im happy with my doctors , since it even had a TV where when i was done i could watch :) And im feeling great having these doctors and since i dont live in the UK or USA im fine!
Many times stuff have been left in a body. A sister in-law lost a close friend cause they left a sponge inside. The person died from infections.
How utterly horrified I am seeing these things go so wrong. Just makes me so scared and sorry for these people. Thank god my hospital in the UK is very good
one time I went to get a block in my jaw for pain until I could get to a dentist in a few days and the block they used fell out of the doctor's hand and end up in my belly, so my belly went numb instead of my jaw also another time I went in for falling on my butt and a week later I was back at the hospital with a staph infection due to when they looked my butt the doctor scratched me I end up having to have a wound vac on me for 4 weeks cause of what they did and antibiotic that I was allergic too
I cant understand it but that sounds horrifying
Damn, poor Arturo. I have scoliosis and have rods along my spine. I got several good years post surgery. Now, I'm in daily nausea inducing pain and my surgery went RIGHT! I can't imagine what he went through.
Some doctors should never be doctors or be allowed to operate on people dummies 🤦🏻♂️😑
I love this girl, she explains it so well and she is actually quite smart
Recently, my step dad had a tumor on his lung. He had surgery to remove it, but after three months he found out he still has the tumor because the surgeon took out healthy tissue, in a different part of his lung.
A friend of mine had a sponge left inside her shoulder. She died of sepsis because it was infected but the doctors never looked for the sight of the infection.
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Omg I am a new subscriber and gosh I love your videos Keep working hard🥰
Why the hell was there an open cup of urine just sitting on the guys beside table? That's just so weird and unsanitary. I know he probably had to give a urine sample but those cups usually do not look like normal drinking cups and typically have lids too
A nurse showed up to test and give meds.
Each surgery I had the nurses triple checked the location where the surgery was supposed to happen. Actually I think they checked even more. These doctors and nurses on this list are horrible and scares the crap out of me
This is what happens when ego meets incompetence
Lindsay you seem like a down to earth sweet person💜 much respect to you!
There's no point taking it to Court
He's not got a Leg to Stand on
lmao you have such a funny bone
Much love from South Carolina
is it common for doctors to leave that inside of people????
Surgeons speak to the patient before going into operating room. This is done to check patient’s acuity, to verify information and mark the area of operation. That procedure has been in place for years. We also make sure that every single piece of equipment is accounted for. This is done to make sure we didn’t leave an instrument or gauze inside the patient or thrown in the trash.
Note there are hundreds of instruments and other instruments.
They almost operated the wrong foot on me.
Fortunatlly I noticed before I went to sleep and told them 🙄
Love your hair color it looks great😊
When I had my second c section the spinal didn't completely numb my right side, so, they went ahead and finished getting the baby out them overdosed me on pain meds and I stopped breathing them have me narcan and I was in extreme pain for four hours because they couldn't give me anything until the narcan was out of my system. But falsified my chart and could not sue. Because of that particular c section four years later I had an ectopic pregnancy because in a rush they threw my intestines back in and then they scarred to one of my tubes. Again small town, falsified documents, unable to sue
I.E. leaving medical instruments/supplies inside a patient. This comes from crappy procedural practice. As a retired surgery nurse 40+ years ago, we counted every sponge we used, both as we handed them to the doctor and before we closed the patient. We actually wrote the # down. Ditto instruments. There is no excuse for this to happen except negligent medical practice.
Honestly i'm so glad she sued, and won 30mil at that. Good on her.
I'm 32 and had a brain tumor at age 7 I had to learn how to walk to talk and breathe on my on. Thank you for this
A lot of Drs. have the patients mark themselves.
*Lindsay* I just adore you! PLEASE, MORE LINDSAY!
“Their skin will get lighter” … thats the opposite
*13:37** honestly the saddest one for me in this video!!! 😭*
I can't get over how freaking cute her shirt is