The downside of being a Doctor is that even the smallest mistake or negligence may lead to life threatening situations and one can get embroiled in legal battles which often makes you question your choice of career. Thankfully, not all such cases end up harming the patient and it does not hurt sometimes to look at it the funny side up! I would like to share one mistake that I made early on in my career when I was a senior Resident in Patna Medical College which makes me laugh to this date.
A patient who underwent emergency laparotomy complained to me on the third postoperative morning that he could not sleep because the injection that he received at bedtime was changed. The drug being administered was Ketorolac and his treatment chart did not reveal any change. Now, it was a newly launched drug and as an enthusiastic young Resident, I wanted to test the tall claims of the Medical…
