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At least keep an eye on the fridge that's storing it for you.
Man loses top of his head in brain operation Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:08AM EDT Email | Print | Digg | Reprints | Single Page | Recommend (10) [-] Text [+] Featured Broker sponsored linkBERLIN (Reuters) - A German court has awarded 3,000 euros ($4,100) in damages to a man who had to have the top of his skull replaced with plastic because of a faulty hospital fridge.
Doctors removed the top of the man's head and put it in cold storage while they operated on his brain, the court in the western city of Koblenz said Tuesday.
Because the refrigerator was defective, the section of skull was not kept cool enough and could not be reattached. Doctors replaced the bone with a plastic prosthesis.
The man sought compensation of at least 20,000 euros on the grounds that the prosthesis caused him headaches, affected his balance and made him unduly sensitivity to the weather.
Following consultations with experts, the court found that the operation had caused the man's discomfort, not the loss of the top of his skull.
Compensation of 3,000 euros was "appropriate and sufficient," it said.
"The experts consulted by the court concluded the new skull roof was better than the original," a court spokesman said.
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Jeez you get scalped and they only come up with $ 4100.00. Was he bald before the operation? Maybe they gave him a scull like a barbie doll with the hair attached.
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In the U.S. he would have been awarded millions because of neglagence, then our insurance rates would have gone up some more. $4100 does seem a little light for loosing the top of your head though.
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the facts when examined scientifically are very biased against health care providers and not trial lawyers..
the politicians like to point to the trail lawyers for assisting people that are severely hurt every year....
Medication Errors Injure 1.5 Million People and Cost Billions of Dollars Annually; Report Offers Comprehensive Strategies for Reducing Drug-Related Mistakes
WASHINGTON -- Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 million people every year, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The extra medical costs of treating drug-related injuries occurring in hospitals alone conservatively amount to $3.5 billion a year, and this estimate does not take into account lost wages and productivity or additional health care costs, the report says http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11623
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The importance of calling attention to the facility and some of its practices (ie maintenance procedures for their equipment) imo would have been an element. I'm thinking the guy will still need follow on check ups and without looking into the Dr's rep he may want the same Dr. again. The law suit served its purpose in that regard.
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The whining I hear from propagandists abroad base upon the arguments that we as Americans pride ourselves on the fact that we pay our OWN way... I don't ask You to pay for me or my needs.. Not exactly... or even remotely true. The idea behind socialized medicine is we all pay into a savings account to amass a large amount of cash. Since there is so many of us paying into this account, and because the probability of us all needing ten million dollars for chem o therapy at once is minuscule, we will have that ten million in the account for any of us to use at any time. The very same definition of insurance. There are problems with both systems. Insurance is a business for profit which results in greedy controllers only willing to do less for more. Government is incapable of finding a hammer for under $600...
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quote:Originally posted by Relentless.: Government is incapable of finding a hammer for under $600...
That's gotta be one helluva hammer. So if we extrapolate a bit, under socialized medicine, a simple physical would cost somewhere in the area of $10,000.00. Imagine the chronically ill 10 million dollar patient now costing upwards of a billion. Yep, sounds like a winner of a plan to me.
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: Government is incapable of finding a hammer for under $600...
you don't really believe they pay that much for the hammers do you?
how do you think they fund all those black ops and false flag ops?
lol Can't forget how the supply chain works. In part there is an item manager that coordinates replenishing the stock system when certain things are runin low. He contacts the companies and they tell him the item hasn't been purchased in so long that now the price has quadrupled. Instead of finding another supplier and putting that company on the black ball list he says okay. So when I go to order that hammer so my guys can go punch holes through the decks of our ships since all the money went for parts instead of being able to replace that section of steel, I have a choice. I can press the button to buy that $600 hammer or I can report it to the waste fraud and abuse hotline. Even when I choose the latter it may take eons for something to get done about it. In the meantime other schmucks are still buying it instead of researching for an alternate source. So the cycle continues. And the companies stay happy, but the decks get thinner.
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