The U does a lot of surgeries that the other hospitals in a rather large area wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. It's good and bad. We give hope and frequently, success and positive outcomes to people who get turned down by everyone else. At the same time, sometime we give a bit too much hope I think. Some people just aren't operative candidates. Or even if they are, albeit incredibly high risk candidates, the more humane thing to do would be not to operate.
It leaves us wondering where our surgeons find some of their patients. For real... I literally have no idea how they find some of these people.
Like Friday, when one of our surgeons operated on this lovely gentleman. A redo-redo surgery. Oh and he's a hemophiliac, with end-stage liver failure. Who's an inmate in the middle of serving a 10 year sentence.
I couldn't come up with a worse candidate (medically and socially) for open heart surgery if I tried. You can't make this shit up.
Maybe the surgeons troll the prisons, looking for a challenge? Got to keep them on their toes.
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