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Re: Specimen MarkingFrom: Brian Hackman (brian.hackman@cambs.sja.org.uk)Tue Feb 4 11:08:23 2003
Dear Harvey My son will be here and wants to come. Can we buy at ticket at the door? Where is Stapleford? best wishes Brian At 04:53 03/02/03 -0600, you wrote: >At several of the hospitals I haved work in, there is a policy that the >surgeon uses a pen/marker to initial the side of the patient that >contains the pathology...ie, marking the proper leg to be amputated. My >experience has been that the surgeons are using their intials...which in >the past seemed rather innocuous. Now, I can see the headlines when a >breast surgeon initials a patient scheduled for a mastectomy. > >I'll have to check and see if the policy has changed... > >Are these policies being followed elsewhere? If so, does anyone have a >suggestion as to how to properly mark a specimen? > >-Jordan Oland, MD >PG3, Queens Hospital Center >Jamaica, NY > >At Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Gerald P. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> I would like to hear from females on this list. Would you feel that "UK" cauterized on your uterine fundus, right before an LAVH be something you would find offensive enough to go to court over? Unless I hated my urologist (in which case I shouldn't have been there to start with), I don't think I would give one s**t about what he/she did to my prostate immediately before its extirpation unless it physically injured me. Phrased differently, if an orthopod initials my leg before its amputation, I don't thing I would mind all that much. Somehow, although I admit it was a stupid and needless thing to do, I think the main issue here is that where there are no deep pockets, trivial stuff like this doesn't really matter. >> >> Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG >> Santa Fe >
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