damn, if that had happened in America who would the Drs have had to sue to get paid?
Nobody expects... a surprise haemorrhoid operation
Decades of authoritarian one party rule have perhaps reduced one man's ability to question authority as a Chinese bloke awaiting the birth of his child was erroneously whisked in for a haemorrhoidectomy. Doctors at Shenyang Hunnan Xinqu Hospital mistook Mr Wang for another chap with a bad case of the pink grapes and whisked …
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Thursday 11th August 2016 12:52 GMT phuzz
According to this article, they went to the nearest Chinese restaurant, "who advised him to use a mobile phone translation app to communicate with the tourist"
So half right?
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Thursday 11th August 2016 13:27 GMT Anonymous Coward
Chinese restaraunt, good idea, but...
One big problem, Most of the Chinese outside of China speak what we call Cantonese; but for the last 40 odd years, the official language taught in schools in mainland China is what we call Mandarin; unless the man was old enough, or came from Hong Kong, Guangdong or Guangzhi provinces, he wouldnt have spoken a word of Cantonese.
Writing might have helped, the written language only has two versions, Traditional (a bit like UK English), and Simplified (a bit like US English), but again, Traditional is used mostly by Chinese OUTSIDE of mainland China, as their parents left before Mao enforced the simplified version.
it is true though the Chinese are brainwashed from birth into doing whatever someone in any type of uniform/authority tells them to do (except traffic cop).
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Thursday 11th August 2016 13:10 GMT Tikimon
Much less likely in America, paranoia rules here
Over here, when you check in they label you with a wristband. It has your name and a host of other information, plus a bar code. You are asked to make sure every bit of info is correct before they put it on you. At every step of the process thereafter, by almost every staff member you interact with, they will check the band. Then you are asked your full name and a few other questions to make sure they have the band on the correct person and the correct procedure in the works. If you're out of it, they scan the band and read it themselves.
It's frankly annoying to experience, being asked the same thing over and over. However, it's cut way down on the wrong procedure wrong person mistakes and helps protect me from that sort of mistake. So really, I don't mind.
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Thursday 11th August 2016 13:17 GMT Jonathan 27
Yeah...
I think it would be much less likely in America, even if there weren't any more rules. The average American who is asked to undress and lie down on a table when they're in to witness their wife giving birth says "no way in hell".
P.S. I don't think this guy should have to pay a dime, in the USA he would be able to sue the hospital for damages.
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Thursday 11th August 2016 13:25 GMT Arthur the cat
Re: Much less likely in America, paranoia rules here
Over here, when you check in they label you with a wristband.
Last time I had an op here in the UK (couple of years back) I had a band on each wrist, and they were the red striped allergy warning ones, just because I said I get hay fever.
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Thursday 11th August 2016 20:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Much less likely in America, paranoia rules here
Last time I was in a UK hospital for an op, I had the op.
Then they proceeded to put me back in the wrong bed, and less than 5 minutes later another crew turned up to take me for ANOTHER, more permanent op.
I was barely concious enough to protest; (lucky that the NHS is so stingy with general anaesthetic), and delayed them just long enough for the guy who should have been in the bed to come back from the toilet and back me up..
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Friday 12th August 2016 03:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
Pele - perhaps you may benefit from a trip to a Chinese hospital?
They may manage to remove your head from your own ass for long enough for you to gain an awareness of your surroundings and a sense of humour. I'm not optimistic that the procedure will be permanent, but we can hope.
Good luck!
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Thursday 11th August 2016 15:00 GMT Alistair
*urph*
When the youngest was about to be born I got a wristband that more or less matched my wife's.
Had to show that to get wee bugger out of the nursery, and a couple of times security asked to see our bands whilst I was wandering about the horsepistol with him in the snugli.
We left chocolates, doughnuts and coffee for the nurses after 5 days in maternity.
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Monday 15th August 2016 04:40 GMT Charles 9
Re: *urph*
"Had to show that to get wee bugger out of the nursery, and a couple of times security asked to see our bands whilst I was wandering about the horsepistol with him in the snugli."
Blame that on too many instances of baby-snatching, some of them by women who could swear up and down (and pass a polygraph in so doing) that the baby is hers even when the DNA tests don't match.
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Saturday 13th August 2016 07:49 GMT ChrisBedford
Re: Alls well that ends well
Alls well that ends well
Apostrophe Sheriff here.
Should be "All'swell that end'swell"
all's well yes, but
end's well <-- where did you get this from? Or was this a joke i didn't get.
Seriously, if you are going to appoint yourself the apostrophe sheriff surely you should get your facts straight. I end, you end, he ends; we end, you end, they end. Straight verb conjugation, which has never taken an apostrophe and only now gets one in "Grocer's English".
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Friday 12th August 2016 03:50 GMT thomas k
Not fun, and then ...
Well, I hope they gave the poor chap more than a few days supply of acetaminophen plus codeine and, when he ran out and asked for more, they didn't tell him to just take Tylenol.
If it was the doctor who had that operation, they'd prescribe themselves a couple months of an oxy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
