The recent news about a surgeon operating on the wrong foot has created a lot of furore. There is outrage about the fact that doctors have become so careless that they can't even distinguish between a healthy foot and a broken one! How can such a gross error happen in a reputed corporate hospital in our capital? What is the world coming to when doctors cannot differentiate between right and left? Patients wonder that if things like this can happen in a five-star private hospital, what must be happening in other hospitals?
How can you trust any doctor? What has the state of the medical profession become? This is an egregious error, which shakes the confidence of society in the medical system. Everyone wonders how doctors can be so negligent that they can't they even figure out which foot to operate on? There will be a lot of finger-pointing and blaming- right from how greedy hospital…
