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May 1, 2004 3:12 PM   Subscribe

Man's stomach 'fell out' after op - Abdominal surgery can be incredibly gross.
posted by Space Coyote (20 comments total)
 
Ow.

'Nuff said.
posted by ilsa at 4:30 PM on May 1, 2004


He must have been gutted.
posted by carter at 4:47 PM on May 1, 2004


A spokeswoman for the Royal College of Surgeons of England told BBC News Online: "Operations should be carried out so that does not happen"

In other news, you need to breathe if you want to live and our planet revolves around the sun. Wow what a spokeswoman that's powerful !
posted by elpapacito at 4:54 PM on May 1, 2004


No pictures? Damn.
posted by hoboynow at 5:45 PM on May 1, 2004


Metafilter: Get the ambulance, my stomach fell out.
posted by Quartermass at 6:17 PM on May 1, 2004


Maybe his wife was in consort with the surgeon to make it look like hara-kiri.
posted by Gyan at 7:01 PM on May 1, 2004


I dunno, it's starting to get ridiculous that every time something goes wrong, blam, lawsuit. I'd like to see a process wherein a check for negligence is made without being in a whirlwind of litigation that just makes healthcare more expensive for everyone. Fixing organisms is not an exact science, humans are not gods, and every so often, something will fuck up. If this is the resault of carelessness and/or ignorance of longstanding evidence that a particular way of doing something is a bad idea, then sure, sue away. But it seems like the first thing that happens is a lawsuit which, I think, probably makes an honest finding of fact all the more difficult. There's no fucking away this woman or the lawyer could have any idea, ALREADY, if there was actual negligence - considering that, it seems like the lawsuit could be blocked.

But, oh well.
posted by kavasa at 8:00 PM on May 1, 2004


You know, after seeing the Weightlifter's Rectum Hanging Out Of His Fucking Ass, Really, I'm Not Shitting You pictures (here or elsewhere...I forget...) this is rather anti-climactic.
posted by Cyrano at 8:19 PM on May 1, 2004


>kavasa re: negligence

It's generally enough that something doesn't ordinarily happen, and wouldn't be expected to happen if somebody hadn't screwed up. This sounds more-or-less like the scissors or cotton swabs forgotten inside a patient -- how hard is it to count them?

On the upside (depending on where you sit) California juries are no longer awarding buckets of cash for any injury. It still happens, but not as often. I was working on a case and the judge had compiled a list of recent verdicts. There were about 15 or 20 of them, and in many of them, the jury found that the defendant was liable (in the wrong, responsible, etc) yet awarded NO money.

The most amusing: one lawyer in a Porsche, talking on the phone, had rear-ended another lawyer in an SUV, totalling both cars. They sued each other (of course); the jury found the Porsche lawyer was at fault, but both left empty-handed. Go figure.
posted by spacewrench at 8:32 PM on May 1, 2004


You know, after seeing the Weightlifter's Rectum Hanging Out Of His Fucking Ass, Really, I'm Not Shitting You pictures (here or elsewhere...I forget...) this is rather anti-climactic.

I think it might have been linked here at one point. If it is the one of the guy doing the squats, it's a fairly well-known photoshopped picture.
posted by bargle at 8:45 PM on May 1, 2004


it's a fairly well-known photoshopped picture.

The picture was faked? Christ, that makes me feel better for some reason...
posted by Cyrano at 9:15 PM on May 1, 2004


Here is a Snopes link which is definately NSFW, photoshopped or not. I actually first read about it being fake on a medical site someone on (I think) misc.fitness.weights linked to which had images of real rectal prolapses and discussion about them. Interestingly enough, that picture looks nastier than any of the real prolapses did.
posted by bargle at 9:39 PM on May 1, 2004


I would just like to repeat that the link above contains a picture which you probably do not want to look at unless you like things such as goatse.cx. .
posted by bargle at 9:41 PM on May 1, 2004


The same thing happened to me the last time I ate at Chili's. ;)
posted by wsg at 7:20 AM on May 2, 2004


I guess this original link would go in the 'con' column of universal health care, maintained by those opposing it?
posted by Busithoth at 8:05 AM on May 2, 2004


Man, can't we have a good faith discussion of prolapsed rectums without someone making it political? ;)
posted by Cyrano at 9:18 AM on May 2, 2004


Why do you people hate President Prolapsed Rectum so much?
posted by zaelic at 9:31 AM on May 2, 2004


Don't think you're Akira related title went unnoticed, Mr. space coyote. Very funny, sir.
posted by Joey Michaels at 1:47 PM on May 3, 2004


wow, really smart emergency call operators. Do they have to ask the "does s/he have chest pains" question or what?
"What more can you say when your man's stomach's hanging out? Isn't that enough for them to come straight away?"
posted by dabitch at 1:53 PM on May 3, 2004


doesn't tetsuo mean "iron man"?
posted by dabitch at 1:55 PM on May 3, 2004


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