Does this story have a ring of truth?
You must decide. But first, please lie down while we examine together the lament of Hanan Mahmoud Abdul Karim.
She is a 36-year-old Jordanian woman who went to a private hospital on April 24 for a C-section.
As reported by Gulf News, she gave birth, but when she came home, her family claim they noticed that her abdomen was vibrating.
By this
point you, like I, might already be rolling your eyes. However, the
story goes that Karim's mother brought her back to the hospital, where
she allegedly received no help.
So she took her to a
public hospital in Amman, where they performed an X-ray. Karim's stomach
must have flipped. For, after emergency surgery, a cell phone was
allegedly removed.
Gulf News goes on to explain that this
case so roiled the nation that it was discussed in the Jordanian
parliament. One lawmaker reportedly declared: "In countries which show
respect to their nations, and following such scandals, governments
usually resign. The parliament should show responsibility and be on the
level of the case."
I'd like to make the Jordanian parliament (if not Karim) feel better. The Washington Post reported
last year that US surgeons leave something behind inside their patients
once every 5,000 to 7,000 surgeries. For comparison, there are at least
50 million surgeries a year.
You do the math. I don't currently have the stomach for it.
Often, but not always, these are surgical items like sponges.
Still,
one question about the Jordanian case affects my indigestion: where did
the gynecologist think he'd left his cell phone? Don't you look
everywhere and then eliminate places one by one? Might the mere thought
of a surgical error have crossed his mind?
It's not known
what sort of phone this was. However, if he'd had a phone tracer app
like Find My iPhone, surely he'd have been able to locate the phone.
Or perhaps he did and hoped the battery ran out before anyone noticed.
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