I am still trying to understand what possibly happened here to the point where the hospital operates the wrong person. I am also trying to fully understand how someone without an operation appointment, shows up at the hospital, and then boom you're going under the knife. No heads up no, explanation, nothing. I also do not understand why this is swept under the floor, because this is quite a serious case, IMO..

by Chief_Whip31

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  1. First people complain over long waiting times, then they complaint when they get a free extra surgery on the spot.

    But seriously, this is a major fuck up. In theory surgery involves a lot of people, a lot of checklist and a couple of safety breaks where everything is confirmed and double checked.

    Apparently the patient protested but was not heard, if it was a old, presumably senile patient I can see that happening but someone should have stopped it somewhere a lot earlier. I dont know all the details but frankly they dont really matter. This is just an embarrassment for AHUS and should have consequences for the surgeon.

  2. As far as I understand, the underlying issue here seems to be that the only form of identity check they did was to ask the patient to confirm their first name at a couple of different points, which of course the patient confirmed since it was their name. I just happened to be the same first name as another patient that was called in around the same time.

    I don’t know if this is due to bad routines, as in, they are only supposed to check the first name – or sloppiness, as in, they are supposed to confirm full name and/or ID details, but skipped that and just asked for the first name.

  3. Pretty weird incident if it happened as they say – Ahus has been my hospital for the past 6 years and I’ve nothing but good things to say about it (I have Crohn’s disease so I’ve been there several dozen times over the years for various things, and participated in a Covid vaccine trail for immune suppressed patients). I can compare it to Drammen and Kongsberg hospitals, and it’s generally as good as, if better than either in my experience.

    As with other hospitals, you have to give your personal number even to get blood taken let alone be operated on. I’m just wondering if there was a language barrier issue along with a foreign name that helped with the confusion.

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