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R.I. Hospital Reports Third Incidence of Wrong-Site Brain Surgery
East News • August 6, 2007
A neurosurgeon at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence has been disciplined for operating on the wrong side of a patient's brain, the third time such an error has occurred at the hospital in the ...
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| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: You are so wrong | Farful Mctavish | Aug 14, 2007, 2:48 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: You are so wrong | Jimmy | Aug 14, 2007, 2:25 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: You are so wrong | Farful Mctavish | Aug 14, 2007, 2:06 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: You are so wrong | Jimmy | Aug 14, 2007, 1:51 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: You are so wrong | Farful Mctavish | Aug 14, 2007, 1:34 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: You are so wrong | Jimmy | Aug 14, 2007, 1:03 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: You are so wrong | Farful Mctavish | Aug 14, 2007, 8:50 am |
| RE: RE: RE: RE: You are so wrong | Jimmy | Aug 14, 2007, 8:03 am |
| RE: RE: RE: You are so wrong | Farful Mctavish | Aug 13, 2007, 8:17 pm |
| RE: RE: You are so wrong | Jimmy | Aug 13, 2007, 1:28 pm |
| RE: You are so wrong | Farful Mctavish | Aug 13, 2007, 8:59 am |
| You are so wrong | Jimmy | Aug 13, 2007, 8:43 am |
| there is no room for these type of errors | farful mctavish | Aug 6, 2007, 8:19 pm |
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: You are so wrong
How can you be so cold as to say that making him feel better is not the point. Taking care of him is exactly the point and no medical expense should be spared in taking care of him.
What do you consider fair compensation? At 86, with a life expectancy of 81, and in poor health (needed brain surgery), what is the value of his life, no more, no less?
Having watched both of my parents die of lung cancer, I can very much appreciate pain and suffering. But all of the money in the world would not have made them feel better. On the other hand, it would have punished the tobacco companies.