A (public) ER (in Greece) once had me in line to get facial reconstruction surgery when I went in for digestive issues. Glad I caught that before it went through.

Fermat's last theorem has already been proven! What are you getting at?

Doctor, please!

Now thats Comedy.

My brain hurts!

/Where's the bloody Lancet?

That's more scary than asinine, don't you think?

Mad Scientist: My brain hurts!

/Where's the bloody Lancet?

Mad Scientist: My brain hurts!

/Where's the bloody Lancet? Barium?

I think I found your problem.

/no I won't tell you
//figure it out

I think the bigger question is would be who would want to have brain surgery performed in Tanzania?

katchooToo: I think the bigger question is would be who would want to have brain surgery performed in Tanzania?

Er, a Tanzanian with a brain tumour?

Sarcasticus: Fermat's last theorem has already been proven! What are you getting at?

this.

I thought it to be odd that the surgeons were suspended. The mix-up occurred because of the confusion in names. Do the surgeons schedule the surgeries for the patients or is that someone else's job?

It must be pretty farked up going in for knee surgery and waking up with stitches around your cranium.

Sarcasticus: Fermat's last theorem has already been proven! What are you getting at?

But not the simple and elegant proof Fermat alluded to.

Asteroth: Sarcasticus: Fermat's last theorem has already been proven! What are you getting at?

But not the simple and elegant proof Fermat alluded to.

i don't think he really had a prove

/not enough space my ass

I kan has socialized medicine?

johntonia: I thought it to be odd that the surgeons were suspended. The mix-up occurred because of the confusion in names. Do the surgeons schedule the surgeries for the patients or is that someone else's job?

It must be pretty farked up going in for knee surgery and waking up with stitches around your cranium.Isn't that how acupuncture works? Make holes in one part of the body to fix the other? I think some people are a bit too quick to blame the surgeons here.

Modular forms and ellipses are teh roxor!!!

If you're having an operation, write what you're getting done on your forehead.

"We are all saddened by the incident and I would like to say sorry to the victims on behalf of the government," Mwakyusa told parliament.

The surgeons have been suspended and other staff ordered to give written explanations.

An apology and a written explanation is the penalty for accidently cutting open someone's brain?

I bet they wonder why things like this happen



The Chief of Surgery was unavailable for comment

OnlyM3
I kan has socialized medicine?

Hey, my HMO would have denied the knee and the brain surgery.

/no brain, no brain damage

i've never had an incorrect medical procedure performed on me, but one time i did order a pizza and received mushrooms instead of anchovies. in a way, i can feel this guy's pain.

Preventive medicine

OnlyM3: I kan has socialized medicine?

Yea cause people in the US never have get the wrong limb cut off or anything.

ComaToast: OnlyM3
I kan has socialized medicine?

Hey, my HMO would have denied the knee and the brain surgery.

/no brain, no brain damage

Yeah, they would just give you an aspirin and tell you to walk it off.

Math nerds for the win!

/loves the headline

I'd prove Fermat's theorem here, but their is not enough space to contain it in a single post.

Yeah, 'cuz "Didas" sounds SOOOOOO much like "Mgaya"!

Get a knee!
Morans!

Silly_Sot, the "s" is silent, I think.

Seriously, when I had knee surgery about 15 years ago, the guy who came in to prep me (1) drew an arrow in magic marker on my left leg, pointing to the knee, and (2) wrote "NO" in large, friendly letters on my right knee. I was semi-conscious during the surgery anyway.

/Epidural was kinda cool, except the two tries for actually getting it in.

Remind me to cross Tanzania off my list of medical tourist destinations.

yotta: Remind me to cross Tanzania off my list of medical tourist destinations.

Is "plastic surgery in Guatemala" still on that list?

Don't you have to be conscious during brain surgery?

Silly_Sot: Yeah, 'cuz "Didas" sounds SOOOOOO much like "Mgaya"!

They were both called Emmanuel. No excuse, I know. Just sayin'.

Unobtanium: Seriously, when I had knee surgery about 15 years ago, the guy who came in to prep me (1) drew an arrow in magic marker on my left leg, pointing to the knee, and (2) wrote "NO" in large, friendly letters on my right knee.

... And "Do not operate on brain" on your forehead?

I was semi-conscious during the surgery anyway.

That's pretty farked up, man. Did you watch?

/Epidural was kinda cool, except the two tries for actually getting it in.

That cracks me up. I'm gonna get flamed for saying this but women make such a big deal of the epidural during childbirth (even though they worship it afterwards because it takes away the pain). Guys are like: hey it was pretty cool ... (You know, the reason why it's so difficult to get an epidural right is because they have to get it between your vertebrae.) Anyway, it reminds me of some comedian who said: if men had periods, we'd be bragging our asses off to each other about it. "So how much did you bleed today, Joe." "Buckets, pal, buckets." "Ech, that's nothing, I went through three boxes of tampax last month. Extra large."

biobot
That cracks me up. I'm gonna get flamed for saying this but women make such a big deal of the epidural during childbirth (even though they worship it afterwards because it takes away the pain). Guys are like: hey it was pretty cool ... (You know, the reason why it's so difficult to get an epidural right is because they have to get it between your vertebrae.) Anyway, it reminds me of some comedian who said: if men had periods, we'd be bragging our asses off to each other about it. "So how much did you bleed today, Joe." "Buckets, pal, buckets." "Ech, that's nothing, I went through three boxes of tampax last month. Extra large."

I don't think you would be bragging about the cramps. No offense to you but women do have a higher pain threshold then men do.
But yeah, I could see guys bragging about how much they bled. Although you guys really squirm if we women talk anything about it! :)

Crazy Alias:

Dracula walks into a bar, says: "Barman, a shot of blood. AB negative. Make it a double."
Barman says: "WTF? We don't serve blood!"
Dracula says: "Okay then, just get me a cup of boiling water."
Barman shrugs, goes to the kitchen, comes back with a cup of steaming hot water.
Dracula takes out an old tampon, says: "Tea time!"

biobot
You are a sick and depraved individual, I can already tell we will have sooo much fun talking! Heh I kinda have a joke simular to that one, just a bad anyways.

Doctor: Ah, Mr. Didas you're awake, how does your knee feel?

Mr. Didas: POTATO!

Doctor: I see, so no pain at all?

Mr. Didas: Baaa... La la laaaaaa!

Doctor: Good, good. It seems the operation was a success.

Crazy Alias:

No offense to you but women do have a higher pain threshold then men do.


Proof ?

Tom_Thump
Doctor: Ah, Mr. Didas you're awake, how does your knee feel?

Mr. Didas: POTATO!

Doctor: I see, so no pain at all?

Mr. Didas: Baaa... La la laaaaaa!

Doctor: Good, good. It seems the operation was a success.

I lol'd nice!

vagina
Crazy Alias:
No offense to you but women do have a higher pain threshold then men do.


Proof ?

We put up with men don't we? /kidding

On a more serious note, I don't acutally have the time to look up the appropiate facts for that (you know that crazy thing called work demands much of my time today.) I am more then willing to admit I may only be repeating an urban myth. You are more then welcome to prove me wrong.

Thanks for getting around to that.


Yes, I know Wiles already proved it a while back

biobotNo, I couldn't watch during the surgery, but I do have the video tape (ACL replacement). It's one of the few that makes me uncomfortable, probably because it's my own knee.

I do remember feeling the skin knife when the surgeon started, and Dave the nice anesthesiologist being concerned over that and juicing me up a little more.

The bad part about the epidural was not being able to pee for about 24 hours, so they gave me a pill for that.

/P.S., you are a truly warped individual. NTTAWWT.

Crazy Alias: No offense to you but women do have a higher pain threshold then men do.

FAIL (pops).

Oroblanco If you're having an operation, write what you're getting done on your forehead.

This

Unless that area will be covered by the packing paper they lay over the 'sterile zone'.

/okay, some I'm obviously not pre-med.
//"Hey, dude, I can't see under hear! Where'd that scalpel go?"

some=so
hear=here

Crazy Alias: We put up with men don't we? /kidding

On a more serious note, I don't acutally have the time to look up the appropiate facts for that (you know that crazy thing called work demands much of my time today.) I am more then willing to admit I may only be repeating an urban myth. You are more then welcome to prove me wrong.

this is pure BS. I've been working in a wood shop, and have seen my uncle accidentally saw off most of his thumb, and not have a huge freaking hissy fit. Missed one time while chopping wood and put in axe in my knee, tied it up with my sock, finished chopping the wood, took it back to camp dropped off the wood, then let everyone else know I should probably go back, because I had an axehole in my knee. Had plenty of neandethal cousins who would rebuild and wreck old cars in a fiery crash to dust themselves off and start on the next one without a whimper. I've known hundreds of women who biatch and moan to the umpteenth degree about every and all pain, ache, discomfort or bruise. Even the ones not from lovemaking. Seen it canoeing for a few weeks up in the Quetico, women first to complain that we the group is travelling too fast, slow down, rest blah blah blah.

Crazy Alias:
You are a sick and depraved individual

Unobtanium:
you are a truly warped individual.

Careful: flattery will get you more jokes. o.O