Comments on: Oops! http://www.agraphia.net/oops/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oops Medical Tragicomedy Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Douchey McFratboy http://www.agraphia.net/oops/#comment-468 Douchey McFratboy Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:56:01 +0000 http://www.agraphia.net/oops/#comment-468 Dooooouuuuuuchebaaaaaag! Dooooouuuuuuchebaaaaaag!

]]> By: Nelly http://www.agraphia.net/oops/#comment-469 Nelly Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:09:22 +0000 http://www.agraphia.net/oops/#comment-469 Man, what's with these posts about you getting down and hard on yourself lately? These things happen, that's why we have so little responsibility as medical students and attendings to look over our backs in the coming years. I'd say most people make more dumb-assed mistakes then you. Take me for example. Once I talked to a patient pre-op as follows: "So, Mrs. Marshall, we're here doing a biopsy for melanoma today?" "No, we're removing a bunion. I had a melanoma 10 years ago, but it went away. Wait, should I be worried?" "Oh, sorry, I was thinking of another patient" Turns out I went in the wrong room and wasn't talking to Mrs. Marshall, but someone else. Yikes! I'm sure neither of us will make the same mistake any time soon. Man, what’s with these posts about you getting down and hard on yourself lately? These things happen, that’s why we have so little responsibility as medical students and attendings to look over our backs in the coming years.

I’d say most people make more dumb-assed mistakes then you. Take me for example. Once I talked to a patient pre-op as follows:
“So, Mrs. Marshall, we’re here doing a biopsy for melanoma today?”
“No, we’re removing a bunion. I had a melanoma 10 years ago, but it went away. Wait, should I be worried?”
“Oh, sorry, I was thinking of another patient”

Turns out I went in the wrong room and wasn’t talking to Mrs. Marshall, but someone else. Yikes! I’m sure neither of us will make the same mistake any time soon.

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