They will care for you and smile as if there’s nothing wrong, only knowing too well how much time you have really left, because they have seen it all before, and they have seen the signs.’
They will also never tell you that two patients ago, someone has died in the very room you are in — who knows, maybe even in the very same bed. I guess this is just daily business, and that’s alright.
Life moves on, and so does the hospital.
But what is much more sinister, is that they know who the bad doctors are.
The doctors who systematically make mistakes — big mistakes. The doctors who start procedures which they know they cannot handle, simply because of ego and financial reasons. The doctors who have caused permanent damage that could be avoided.
The doctors who have caused death, time and again.
One of these dark secrets is that gynecologists generically tend to end up in this kind of mess — you would not believe how many times a general surgeon or a urologist is called to fix an emergency situation which was caused by the worse of judgement by a gynecologist.
Ruptured bladders, ruptured urethra, babies in trouble, internal bleedings — and worse.
On many an occasion, I have heard stories about situations in which a patient — or her unborn baby — nearly died, if it wasn’t for the help of a general surgeon or urologist.
Or that a female patient could not have children anymore after the most abominable mishandling during surgery, which was never communicated nor admitted to the patient afterwards.
Instead, they do get all the praise and flowers when a surgery was “successful” — and they will never tell who really saved the day.
Because those who did are never in the room when the good news is given —
But they are when the emergency calls.