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All She Wanted Was a Leg Operation

A German retiree needed a leg operation, but walked out with much more than she bargained for.

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659 Responses to “All She Wanted Was a Leg Operation”

Comment by dan

Is this what socialized health care leads to? I don’t want it!

 
Comment by patrick

Well that stinks….

 
Comment by Willy Wrektim

I bet her husband is happy with the results. :)

 
Comment by mrlgh

Ok…what can one say? I mean really? What can one say. Poor lady.

 
Comment by Bill in Santa Fe

The surgeon sure has his head up his in this operation.
Like I commented on the kidney operation–I saw a lot of this during the 12 years I worked in hospitals in the 1960’s. they covered up for each other back then. Glad this is out in the open. Had a friend or relative been in the OR this would never have happened. The Dr’s don’t want anyone awake to see their mistakes.

 
Comment by Rob

What a crappy experience…. and her lawsuit does not have a leg to stand on!!

 
Comment by chris
 
Comment by al

I feel badly for her but it did make me laugh in an otherwise boring morning

 
Comment by SG

Now that’s what I call shi**y service! ;-p

 
Comment by vincent

socialized medicine anyone?

 
Comment by Dr.A

And everyone complains about American hospitals!!! It just shows we (Americans) aren’t the only screwed up heath care. And we (Americans) want social health care?? This is one of many screw ups that happen in the health care field..

 
Comment by Mike L

This story shows the problem with 24-7 news services like Foxnews and its competitors.
In the old days when all we had was newspapers and 6:00 to 7:00 news broadcasts we
would never hear such a story, especially if it happened in Europe.
I believe we are actually getting too much information now, especially on things
that should not really concern us, and things that are best left private.

 
Comment by Uranus

At least they can do is save her old one for someone else who has ruined theirs, or mail it to her with a sincere regrets letter.

 
Comment by Frank Popolano

They got her on a technicality. Half of the Anus can be considered to be the top of one leg…so she had an operation on BOTH legs at half the cost!

 
Comment by George Mills, Lake Hopatcong, NJ..US Air Force 66 to 71

send this story to hillbill & hussein.

 
Comment by David Schulte

Hmmm. I wonder if Germany has the socialized medical services that both of the Democratic candidates for president want so bad for the rest of us. Better yet, if we had socialized medicine, I wonder if Clinton or Obama would want to HAVE to go to this hospital for their medical services…

 
Comment by Dee

That’s socialized medicine for you! I sure would hate to see what happens in this country if Mizz Clinton gets her way with health care!

 
Comment by HERB KREBS

Dont worry if Obama or Clinton get into Office we will all be Butt Heads,

 
Comment by Lisa

As if one was not enough….ew.

 
Comment by TMclary

Wow, what a pain the the a…

 
Comment by Joe

I really don’t understand– a “new” one? Whose did they take? Aren’t they all used to some degree or other?

 
Comment by David

Any compassion for the unlucky person who checked in to get their a@# fixed and ended up getting their leg operated on. Let’s hope it wasn’t an amputation. Imagine having to take a crap real bad and not being able to run to the bathroom, they’d really be up the proverbial creek without a leg to paddle with, oops mixing my metaphors…

 
Comment by Jeff

I doubt she has a leg to stand on…!!!! (LOL)

 
Comment by Judy Kay

Hopefully people are aware should this happen once ‘Universal Healthcare is in force that you will not be able to sue for a mistake like that….I am sooo scared of Universal healthcare… People , study it, resaerch it, talk to someone who lives with it……..

 
Comment by Ryland Thompson

Talk about a bad day. First you can’t walk and now you can’t sit down either.

 
Comment by Matt Davidson

I would rip those guys a new A**H*LE!

Doh!

 
Comment by dlbritt

This is what we will have to look forward to if we go to government controlled healthcare.

 
Comment by steve franklin

they ripped her a new one

 
Comment by Bethipoo

Comment by Rob
March 19th, 2008 at 10:46 am
What a crappy experience…. and her lawsuit does not have a leg to stand on!!
+++++++++++++++

Rob, from TSR/APOOO, is that you?!

 
Comment by Gale

I can’t imagine where those surgical team place the extra and to think to clean both. Talk about extra waste to dispose as a result of this socialized healthcare which the democrats glee on the idea of extra waste they can conveniently budget and tax the woman to death.

 
Comment by Daisy Estrella

I guess they tore her a new one.

 
Comment by sefsdfsdf

what a pain in the a**

 
Comment by CueTheMassacre

I wonder if the person they mixed the operation up with was the Goatse guy……

 
Comment by Carmen

The least the hospital can do is her leg surgery for free (But then I wont want then to try again)

Does her new Anus look good and does it work better?

I know all about socialized medicen and believe me we don’t want it nor do we want Obama or Clinton.

 
Comment by Bridget

Can hospitals and doctors be sued in countries that have socialized medicine?
Does anyone know the answer?

 
Comment by Ben

LOL. That really sucks

 
Comment by Davvid Swanson

Well, now ain’t that the sh*ts???

 
Comment by rex

bet she feels like an a–hole!

 
Comment by JW

She should really rip those doctors a new one.

 
Comment by biglove

at least she won’t have the walking farts now…

 
Comment by Kristine Smith

Unbelievable! She should sue the hospital for all - and I do mean ALL - they’re worth. Doesn’t ANYONE know how to their job anymore?

 
Comment by Harry Ape

So instead of an Orthopedic Surgeon she got an Anus-thesiologist

 
Comment by Gord

It sounds like going to the hospital and having Anus Surgery instead of leg surgey is like Hilary becoming president, like we really needed another flip floping going or a pain in the Anus for a president. We alreday have a broken leg for a president, no need for an extra pain in the rear X 2. Hil/Bill

 
Comment by Kevin

what a pain in the a**

 
Comment by kyle

Didn’t they notice the 1st A-hole? I mean… Come on. Where did they add it? Her face?

 
Comment by Herb H

By the time she and her lawyer are finished, the surgeon will need this proceedure done on himself.

 
Comment by kyle

They did’t notice the one that was already there? I mean…come on. Where did they put the new one? Her face?

 
Comment by Kevin Jordan

She needs to be careful. My brother underwent a leg amputation several years ago and the doctors removed the wrong leg. He was going to sue the hospital but by the time he got around to it he no longer had a leg to stand on….

 
Comment by Gina

Always read the orders with the surgeon before you go in to the operating room. Use a felt marker to mark the inciscion site. Read your own identity bracelet and make sure it’s you.

 
Comment by Jim Woodward

Looks as if we are three to four times safer on our highways than in our hospitals - and some are insisting on a national health-care “system” - WOW! This yet-to-form bureaucracy could probably foul a junk yard.

 
Comment by Amy

So, where did they put the new a-hole???

 
Comment by Ian

has anyone said “what a pain in the arse” yet

you bunch of cheese balls!!!!

so i would say if you know a candidate that is in support of socialized medicine, that would be a bad thing to vote for them her him….lol

 
Comment by Gary

Talk about a pain in the a**….

 
Comment by Debbie

Hope she gets a buttload of money after suing them good!!!

 
Comment by Chase

So which one does she poop out of?

 
Comment by Delores

We all know Hillary needs hers switched out from having her head up there so much, but to force Socialized Medicine on the rest of us….??

 
Comment by Joe Black

Rectum…Hell…could-ah-killed’m

 
Comment by newballoon knott

‘doc my a** lip is friggin killing me but my leg feels absolutely fine ! what happened in there??

 
Comment by Kurk

And what is “Suspensions” going to accomplish? get the stupid team out of the limelight for a few weeks and then let them back in once the fire is out?

How about a year long suspension without pay? Think that might get it through their heads they better double check before opening up someone?

Here is another million dollar lawsuit the hospital is going to have to pay and all they can do is Suspend the team

laughable

 
Comment by Luis A Tarango

Unfortunaly we have the same thing here at home but they are able to hide it much better, imagen if we had “Universal Health”; Once we accept their program, we are all doomed.

 
Comment by wrongballoon knot

” doc , my leg feels great but my A****** is on fire, what happened in that operating room?”

 
Comment by ZIGGY ZIGALO

kind of like the gvt is doing to us with the economy

 
Comment by 1313

Same thing happened to me only it wasn’t my doctor that did it- it was my tax accountant.

 
Comment by Laura

What incompetent a******! I have to say though… this is the funniest thing I have read in a long time! I hope she didn’t have to pay for it!

 
Comment by Melbert Ruperdtstein

Good, She deserved it for being in need of a leg.

 
Comment by Karen

This gives a (w)hole new meaning to the expression “having a bad day.”

 
Comment by Luis A Tarango

Unfortunaly we have the same problem here at home, just that they are able to hide it a little better; imagen if we had “Universal Health”, we would be doomed.
I feel sorry for that poor lady.

 
Comment by Richard

Those Drs. don’t know an a** from a leg on the ground

 
Comment by Apex

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Comment by Perry Mollohan

Typical socialist health care. You assume you are getting good care and end up making the wrong a** of u and me.

 
Comment by Paul Cromer

She’ll be the butt of jokes for a long time.

 
Comment by Debi

If that happened in Texas, she would have no way to Sue those idiots. Yip! No kidding. Be sure you don’t vote to stop frivolous law suits. Hospital personnel killed my mother and because of this new law, we cannot even sue. The maximum amount you can sue for is $250.00 and with court costs and lawyer fees, most attorneys won’t even take the cases. Many private facilities have completely dropped malpractice insurance because they no that no one will sue now. Wow! I guess that kind of gives them a License to Kill. Thank you my dear liberal lobbyists!

 
Comment by Jessica

Now,now, lets not bring up the issue of socialized medicine. (I do agree it is not the solution). This incident just has to do with the surgical team not being responsible and not doing their job the right way. There is a sequence of steps that must be taken before any surgery and one of the links in the chain broke. I feel sorry for this lady. It’s called anastomose. They create a passageway from the exsisting one and exits threw the new. Obviously they close the other opening. I see what goes on in the healthcare system. There are too many sick people and not enough of staff. You have people that of course abuse the system, and my belief they take up too much of staff time. People who are really sick would get faster service if people that have sore throats or fever should stay home and go threw there PCP or use a walk-in. Of course there are the occasional abnormal onsets, and there is no other choice. You all have a wonderful weekend!

 
Comment by Steve

So did the incontinent woman get a third leg?

 
Comment by David Butterfield

I could only be so lucky! No more chaffing involved - she is able to rotate sphincters between “doodies!”

 
Comment by poopshoot

The doctor must be a real azzhole.

…..Gina 12:08, very ggod advice indeed.

 
Comment by Mary

overworked doctors again.

 
Comment by Dan

They must have “Hillary-care” over there. At least they didn’t put it in the middle of her forehead.

 
Comment by Bonnie

This gives a whole new meaning to “covering your a**!”

 
Comment by Vince

So now she has two anunes?

Bet she could make a killing in porn.

 
Comment by Funnyguy

Sounds like a pain in the a** to me :)

 
Comment by Marla Frey

I,ve heard of things that cost an arm and a leg but never and anus.

Marla Frey

 
Comment by Ken E.

I just wonder what it takes to “create” a new anus. Would it require skin from a democrat?

 
Comment by Mac in Costa Mesa

This should be front page news here in the U.S. Hilary Care? Obahma Care? Please . . .

 
Comment by Ohio Republiscum

Opinions are like ……

Some have two!

 
Comment by Tom

Instead of candidates bickering about race and affairs etc., maybe we should look at health care….

 
Comment by Frank Popolano

Where I come from, what they did to this Woman isn’t called ‘Anastomose’…we use another term.

 
Comment by Brian
 
Comment by Batavia

Well, once she settles, she’ll have money coming out the Wazoo….

 
Comment by Rifraffe

Couldn’t the doctors see that her old one was perfectly fine and didn’t need to be replaced?! Or was it just as well that she got a brand new new one after all? Must have looked like it needed at least a tune up!

 
Comment by Karen

First of all, did anybody notice that one of the ads is “New Alternative to Back Surgery” on the comments page?

Joe Black, you’re killing me.

But FYI, there are many different types and brands of artifical sphincters. I have one friend who sells them for a medical supply company, and she has to observe and document every…installation? I have another friend who works for a patent attorney. You wouldn’t believe.

 
Comment by Joe

LOL I cannot stop laughing at this story! What a riot! Hope her new anus works!

 
Comment by Newanusenvy

What a lucky lady….she got a new butt.

 
Comment by Mike B

One of those things is too many, and that poor lady has two?

 
Comment by VAW
 
Comment by old fart

I, along with many of my old fart friends could use a new anal sphincter! where do we sign up?

 
Comment by Sean

Does it whistle when she poots?

 
Comment by G M

lucky is correct! After all the money and the law suit, could possibly persue a career in porn!

 
Comment by Lock Tight

Properly describing your problem enhances proper diagnosis and repair. She mentioned to the doctors she had a crappy leg and they solved the problem by giving her a new bunhole, making it a little tighter. Hence no more crappy leaks giving her a crappy leg.

 
Comment by momydearestc

After 3 10 lbs babys…..I need a new anus…..Where do I sign up????

 
Comment by TODD