How much patient safety is too much?
Columnist Robert Kirby talks about the practice of labeling body parts prior to surgery. With the rare stories of wrong-site surgeries, I suppose one cannot be too careful.
Kirby however, wonders about the absurdity of it all: “On another gurney, a patient waiting to have his knee scoped was asked to write “yes” on the appropriate knee. If anyone there was having a colonoscopy, I’ll bet that was interesting . . .
. . . Malpractice litigation must be worse than I thought. Do expectant mothers have to draw these helpful diagrams: ‘Baby comes out here’ with an arrow?”
Indeed.
