Wonder what the woman patient in this chapter would think of Henry Marsh’s book? Doubt the hospital administration would have told her:
We tried three times to clip the aneurysm but the first two clips were flawed and the head surgeon ended up throwing one of the flawed clips across the operating room. You’re damn lucky.
Anyhoo, the day after the operation, when Marsh visits the patient, she has a huge black eye and a swollen forehead. Marsh may not have appeared sufficiently concerned about the patient’s appearance because her husband, who happens to be there, glares at Marsh angrily.
Marsh explains his nonchalance thus:
- Perhaps I should have expressed more sympathy but after the near-disaster of the operation I found it difficult to take her minor post-operative problems seriously.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 