Note to self: If in Florida do not see this doctor.

The scary thing is that she still has her license.

Q: What do you call the person who graduated last in his/her class at medical school?

A: Doctor.

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Somewhere out there is the world's worst doctor, and somebody has an appointment to see him/her tomorrow.

In florida 5% of the doctors are responsible for 50% of the malpractice claims

yet they can still practice. While the other 95% of the physicians are responsible for the other 50%

-fire the fire percent-
-lower malpractice rates-
-steal underware-

And now, my final creation: A human being, entirely made of boobies!.

/Actually, that would be... Horrible.

I thought it was a joke... :(

This crap happens more often than you have any notion it might. They call it "wrong site surgery", and it happens often enough that it has a name.

"We call it a 'Broken Arrow'."
"You have a name for it??"

Question your doctors and nurses if something seems wrong - they're human and make mistakes sometimes. Ask anyhow. It's your body.

Thank goodness she is only an orthopedic surgeon......and not a brain or other-vital-organ-in-your-body surgeon.

Apparently a smack on the hand (har har) isn't enough, maybe hanging her by her toes would do something.

\\cancelling all doctor's appointments

I've got surgery coming up. Anyone know where I can get a pint of indelible ink and a rubber stamp saying "Wrong Body Part!"?

So they give out doctor licenses like baseball cards, huh?

apiarist

Sharpie will do the job, but make it clear. An "X" means "Cut here" in some hospitals and "Don't cut here" in others. If your surgical team has it together, they'll mark it while you're still awake and coherent.

http://www.floridaortho.com/physicians/beatty.html

From her bio:

Dr. Beatty then pursued plastic surgery training at Duke University.

Makes sense.

Im sure the submitter has made less then 3 mistakes in his job in the last 5 years. Yes, even surgeons are human.

There's a Dr. Knevitz in Dallas that has killed 3 patients with novocaine. He's a dentist. I'd avoid him.

apiarist
hope you will "bee" ok soon.

/cough,cough

outlawtartan

Thank goodness she is only an orthopedic surgeon......and not a brain or other-vital-organ-in-your-body surgeon.

Apparently a smack on the hand (har har) isn't enough, maybe hanging her by her toes would do something.

\\cancelling all doctor's appointments

Well to be fair, she had a choice of 8/10 fingers to choose from, a brain surgeon not so many options.

Inflatable Rhetoric
"There's a Dr. Knevitz in Dallas that has killed 3 patients with novocaine."

My understanding is that novocaine is a local, impressive.

When my son had surgery for a broken collar bone the nurse marked a bix X on the other side. I asked her why. She said, "So the doctor won't operate on the wrong side."

DAMN! This stuff must go on a LOT!

And we keep hearing from the AMA how doctors would police themselves if they had Medical liability reform...... Right.

Crooks with degrees!

Mark

theres been a disturbance in the force as all our health insurances just went up

DUKE SUCKS

Failing_Junk

Im sure the submitter has made less then 3 mistakes in his job in the last 5 years. Yes, even surgeons are human.

And if the submitter had as many years of college and training as a surgeon, with the same consequences for failure, your comment might actual have merit.

Finger surgery is not so a big deal and there are lots of fingers. I can see someone making more mistakes than say heart surgery.

That said before any surgery I recommend using a magic marker beforehand and labeling body parts not to operate on. Doctors put a lot of faith in the chart and dont put much thought into making cuts.

What is this NBA rules or something?

And yet our a-hole politicians keep clamoring for tort reform.

So this is where Carl Hiaasen gets his ideas.

Richard_M_Nixon
"And if the submitter had as many years of college and training as a surgeon, with the same consequences for failure, your comment might actual have merit."

Wow, through college and training i can achieve perfection? I clearly declared the wrong major.

<i>Beatty received a one-year suspension, but she will have to serve only one month if there are no further problems.</i>

No further problems? While she is suspended?

See, most of us md's can handle 5-6 highballs and a joint and still go in and perform perfect surgery. It's jerks like this that ruin it for everyone.

wait... how will they know there are no further problems unless she is operating again inside of the 1st month of the one year suspension?

with logistical morons directing licensing, no WONDER there are mistakes being made...

Attention Deficit strikes agai--naughty nurses! all right!!!

Insurance companies are more than happy to keep doctors like this in business.

Morans like this are the ones the insurance industry like to point to and reason for their absurdly high malpractice insurance premiums.

And of course the cost gets passed down to us. It's a cyclical thing, that's all.

mistakes were made, limbs were amputated...

Q: What do you call the person who graduated last in his/her class at medical school?

A: A Proctolgist.

That's why doctors become Proctologists.

When my son had surgery for a broken collar bone the nurse marked a bix X on the other side. I asked her why. She said, "So the doctor won't operate on the wrong side."

Just to relate something to the rest of the world for most people; My brother is a carpenter. He was over helping me make a put something together to wrap my xmas lights around so I don't make a mess. Simple, right? 4 pieces of wood to put together. To make it flush he was marking and measuring and putting X's on what we where going to cut out. I asked him why he does that for something so simple. He says something like "Habit. If I make sure every time an X is marked on what needs to be cut out there is less chance for my own brain to mess it up - even the simple stuff. Saves time too."

Doctors and Carpenters are the same - human. They can make mistakes. However, A carpenter can make a mistake while A doctor cannot. If you want to be a doctor, you beter make darn sure you know how to not make mistakes cuz your mistakes are costly and can be irrepairable.

/fire doctors that make so much mistakes.
//Would fix part of the malpractice insurance problems
///better fix would be to not have privately owned insurance companies who aren't beholden to their stock holders and not the customer. but I digress.
/ / / / goes the malpractice suit.

Failing_Junk

*sigh*....
Let me draw you a diagram:
Your comment seeks to absolve or at least lessen the surgeon's liability in this by equating the submitter's likelyhood of making mistakes on the job with a doctor's.

I assume you frequently make apple pie with oranges?

You might have a point if the average Joe's job required them to make incisions on people's hands.
Oh, wait, it doesn't.
The whole point of the education and training of a surgeon is so crap like this doesn't happen.
Therefor, to compare the average person's job and likelyhood/consequences of a mistake to a surgeon is specious and silly.

Failing Junk

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. If screwed up that badly as a doctor, I'd perhaps consider a less demanding career.

One month? Take away the license forever. There should be a three strike rule for malpractice.

Richard_M_Nixon

I assume you frequently make apple pie with oranges?

Hmmm - an orange pie sounds rather refreshing, though I'm not sure how the idea would hold up under scrutiny.

It's quite good with a side of poached red herring.

Richard_M_Nixon
"Let me draw you a diagram:
Your comment seeks to absolve or at least lessen the surgeon's liability in this by equating the submitter's likelyhood of making mistakes on the job with a doctor's."

Maybe the submitter is a doctor, it is irrelevant. I am pointing out that we are all human and making mistakes is a symptom of that condition. Liability is a matter of law.

I had knee surgery at this "surgery center" 2 years ago. Later a doctor friend referred to it as "The Mill." With the high volume of procedures every day, I am surprised there are not more errors.
I love me some capitalism but if there is a next time I will pay extra to receive more care and less processing.

Prior to surgery surgeons are supposed to to a 'time out' where they stop, announce the surgery that's going to happen (in this case the name of the patient, surgery, the body part and the side to be cut). Also, usually docs will put initials or something to that effect on the part to be cut. The X can easily be confused (does X mean cut here, or do not cut here?). Everyone in the room is supposed to listen to the time out and agree on what is about to happen. This is required by JCAHO (gives accreditation for hospitals).
There are really really bad doctors out there. Do some research to make sure yours isn't one of them before s/he slices (and dices) you.

/works with Orthopaedic surgeons
//program has residents who won't work with some of the attendings because they are too dangerous
///they're still doing surgery every day... on your mom/little brother/left pinky toe.

NuttierThanEver

old-fat you do realize that lawyers have alos made it so State Medical boards can't hand out as harsh sentences as they'd like to? Seems if they smack down too hard on idiots like this they get sued for libel and restraint of trade or some other bullshiat, so the boards hand out weak sentences to avoid the legal fights.

/yes it is all the lawyers fault

Unsubstantiated rumor--still good enough to blame the lawyers.

How the hell could you mix up a ring finger with a thumb???

Takes a special kind of shtoopid.

"Beatty received a one-year suspension, but she will have to serve only one month if there are no further problems. She will be on probation for two years."

How could there possibly be further problems while she is on suspension?

Florida.
/sigh

Failing_Junk:

You are an idiot. If I work at McDonald's and put pickles on somebodys hamburger when they ordered no pickles, nobody is going to die.