Prevetable death? from a Qc MD

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Man !!!

When they are not brandishing legal references

They fall back on Hollywoood references

You got a love it ;-)


Charles
... just being funny


----- Original Message ----
From: "Krin135 at aol.com" <Krin135 at aol.com>
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 4:29:20 PM
Subject: Re: Prevetable death? from a Qc MD

I'd do what I can with what's available. Problem being, I'd rather not be  
reduced to using the same method that Duke Forrest, Capt, MC, had to use during  
the Korean Conflict...

Not having the appropriate trephination equipment at the MASH unit (they  
were all at the receiving General Hospital somewhat further to the rear), Capt  
Forrest, who did have a month or so of Neurosurgery under his belt, was faced  
with evidence of an expanding extra dural hematoma in a young soldier, 
borrowed  the mallet and chisel from the amputation set...reportedly saving the 
patient,  "even if [he] did it by hitting him on the head with an ax."

Duke Forrest may have been a figment of Dr. Hooker's imagination, but I  
suspect that there were more than a few of those cases in the forward operating  
rooms during WWII and Korea...

Fortunately, I now work in the State of Missouri, which does have a nicely  
developed trauma system, and I can usually get a neuro case transported 
directly  to a major trauma center.

ck
Charles S. Krin, DO


In a message dated 3/27/2009 14:19:22 Central Standard Time,  
Ronald.Gross at baystatehealth.org writes:

Tim,
As one of those USA members, I can only say Thank you, thank  you, thank you!!
I am glad to see that I am not the only one on the list  that puts patients 
before "jurist prudence" - an intentional slip.....you are  perfectly correct 
in assuming that one would be prosecuted for NOT trying when  one had the 
ability to do so.  But much more importantly, as I said  earlier, "you have the 
ability to save the patient and you don't, and the  patient dies, could you ever 
look in the mirror again?"
Take  care,
Ron

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