Five medical blunders as bad as the rapping, dancing surgeon
From left behind tools to removing the wrong body parts to walking out in the middle of an operation; here are some gruesome examples of medical malpractice and mishaps
Having any surgical procedure is no laughing matter, but when the doctor involved isn’t up to scratch it can only end in tears.
This was the case for Icilma Cornelius who was weeks away from her wedding in 2016 when she visited cosmetic surgeon Windell Davis Boutte’s practice in Atlanta, Georgia in the US, to have some minor surgery done.
To make matters worse, The Washington Post reports that in the subsequent lawsuit against Dr Boutte, details emerged of about two dozen videos filmed and posted to the clinic’s YouTube channel, which showed the doctor dancing, rapping and gesturing over her patients’ naked bodies, apparently during their procedures.
Here are five other examples of shoddy work by the medical profession.
German media reported that surgeons left 16 medical items in a cancer patient’s body during an operation in 2009. Dirk Schroeder reportedly had successful routine surgery for prostate cancer only to suffer “appalling agony” after it.
According to the German-language newspaper Bild, surgeons operated on Schroeder once again and were shocked to find 16 pieces of medical equipment in his body. The Daily Mail reported that the items included “a needle, a six-inch roll of bandage, a six-inch long compress, several swabs and a fragment of surgical mask.”