Following initial investigations into the case, Te Whatu Ora Auckland, formerly Auckland District Health Board, claimed it had not failed to exercise reasonable skill and care towards the patient, who was in her 20s.
???
“We always leave instruments inside patients body. This is just what we do, that’s not any measure of failure. Fuck off.”
It was eventually removed from the woman’s abdomen in 2021, approximately 18 months after the initial procedure and a number of visits to her GP. On one occasion, her pain was so severe that she visited the emergency department at Auckland city hospital.
I wish this was surprising.
From heart disease to IUDs: How doctors dismiss women’s pain
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2022/women-pain-gender-bias-doctors
‘I was told to live with it’: women tell of doctors dismissing their pain
Have you listened to’The Retrievals’ the Serial podcast? Terrifying systematic denial of women’s pain.
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** Surgeon slaps the body **
“You can fit a whole dinner plate worth of instruments in here.”