Monday, November 26, 2007

Left Brain, Right Brain

Suppose you need brain surgery. Not good.

Now suppose the doctors operate on the wrong side of your brain. Double not good.

So if you need brain surgery, be careful about Rhode Island Hospital. They've had 3 operations this year where neurosurgeons got their left and right mixed up.
"We are extremely concerned about this continuing pattern," Director of Health David R. Gifford said in a written statement.
Concerned. Good.

In the mean time, if you opt for brain surgery at this institution, I do have a suggestion:

Write with magic marker on your head,
"Open This Side Only" - or you just might wake up dead.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gawd, I laughed out loud reading your post, even though its topic is no laughing matter.

John Enright said...

Yeah, it's really a scary story underneath!