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Mon 9 Aug, 2004 03:34 am
A surgeon operated a surgical for a patient, but he carelessly left a big pledget in the patient's stomach. The surgical wound in the patient's stomach scarred over, but the patient often felt pain from his belly. Finally he had to go to see another doctor, and the doctor found out what was wrong in his belly.
You native English speakers call the medical mistake as " medical negligence", or whatsoever?
Things like that are often related to just as '(gross) medical mistake' or 'faux pas,' because of the differences in law. In England, we operate under the ruling of Donaghue v Stevenson (1944,) in which a lady was served a snail in her ginger beer, and-- drinking it-- became ill. It was decided that everyone owed each other a duty of care, and breaking that -- as the surgeon did -- was negligence. This was complicated by many rulings, but reemerged in the case of Adomako (1992). There are various levels of negligence; basic negligence, or GNM...
and this might be completely different in America...
medical negligence is what happened, yeah.
Oh, and "A surgeon performed an operation for a patient" would be a better way of stating that first sentence.
A pledget is a wad of cotton or something like it.
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