Post by yopparaisaru on Jun 6, 2008 13:47:46 GMT 8
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It's not a tumour, it's a towel
04/06/2008 14:52 - (SA)
Tokyo - Doctors who carried out surgery on a Japanese man to remove a "tumour" had good news and bad news for him. He did not have cancer - but the "growth" that had been causing him pain was in fact a 25-year-old surgical towel.
The patient had been carrying the cloth since 1983, when surgeons at the Asahi General Hospital in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo left it in him after an operation to treat an ulcer, a spokesperson for the hospital said.
The man, now 49, went in to another hospital in late May after suffering abdominal pain.
When examinations found what was believed to be an 8cm tumour, he underwent the operation to remove it. It was only then that surgeons realised it was a towel.
"The towel was greenish blue although we are not sure about its original colour," the Asahi General Hospital spokesperson said, adding it had been crumpled to the size of a softball.
Asahi hospital officials visited the man and apologised, he said.
The former patient has no plans to sue the hospital, which is in talks with him over compensation or other measures, the official said.
Japanese media reports said the man, who was not identified, still had his spleen removed.
-(my commentary) Naturally after relizing the tumor was a towel and not a tumor they removed his spleen for good measure. Kinda reminds me of a few of friends visits to Japanese hospitals where they go in complaining of one thing and doctors tell them something else entirely.
patient: "Doc...i have a bad headache and I'm nauseous."
Doctor: "What have you been doing lately?"
patient: "Well, i stayed up all last night reading microscopically small print on my ultra-brite laptop screen while my neighbor vented toxic gas into my room from his attempted suicide."
Doctor: "Ahh I see, you have an inflamed gallbladder it needs to come out."
patient: "huh?"
Doctor: "Just close your eyes and backwards from 100..."
It's not a tumour, it's a towel
04/06/2008 14:52 - (SA)
Tokyo - Doctors who carried out surgery on a Japanese man to remove a "tumour" had good news and bad news for him. He did not have cancer - but the "growth" that had been causing him pain was in fact a 25-year-old surgical towel.
The patient had been carrying the cloth since 1983, when surgeons at the Asahi General Hospital in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo left it in him after an operation to treat an ulcer, a spokesperson for the hospital said.
The man, now 49, went in to another hospital in late May after suffering abdominal pain.
When examinations found what was believed to be an 8cm tumour, he underwent the operation to remove it. It was only then that surgeons realised it was a towel.
"The towel was greenish blue although we are not sure about its original colour," the Asahi General Hospital spokesperson said, adding it had been crumpled to the size of a softball.
Asahi hospital officials visited the man and apologised, he said.
The former patient has no plans to sue the hospital, which is in talks with him over compensation or other measures, the official said.
Japanese media reports said the man, who was not identified, still had his spleen removed.
-(my commentary) Naturally after relizing the tumor was a towel and not a tumor they removed his spleen for good measure. Kinda reminds me of a few of friends visits to Japanese hospitals where they go in complaining of one thing and doctors tell them something else entirely.
patient: "Doc...i have a bad headache and I'm nauseous."
Doctor: "What have you been doing lately?"
patient: "Well, i stayed up all last night reading microscopically small print on my ultra-brite laptop screen while my neighbor vented toxic gas into my room from his attempted suicide."
Doctor: "Ahh I see, you have an inflamed gallbladder it needs to come out."
patient: "huh?"
Doctor: "Just close your eyes and backwards from 100..."