Tuesday, February 10, 2009

LaPaRoToMY

i had an experience before in my previous institution whereby i was the technologist on duty, alone mind you, in a hospital laboratory. handling all departments by myself and had this case of a man, a hippopotamus of a man actually, waistline of no less than 100 inches going for a laparotomy procedure (laparotomy LA-puh-RAH-toh-mee A surgical incision made in the wall of the abdomen. )the man was so fat that liposuction, dieting, and all other hopes of slimming down fails and they had to make his stomach smaller to help him reduce weight by putting on a band (lap banding). well the band ruptured and damaged his peripheral organs and he acquired sepsis (blood infection). making the long story short, he was opened up, tried to be patched up, i was so damn busy, busiest nyt of my career, yet the following 2 days he gave up and died.
tonight, i got another one. no he is not obese, he's just a bleeder. the team of doctors just keeps on wasting blood by not investigating properly whats causing the bleed . . sigh . .there goes my break again . . .
ill be calling all the saints tonigt . .. have mercy.



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