affected person , but I can tell she is my mother-in-law , who is suffering from great stress nowadays . She was suffering from bleeding due to an ovarian cyst . From time to time , she had to ask for a medical leave of absence , since she could not work as required . The solution was surgical . Firstly , her hemoglobin must be stabilized and eventually she entered the operating room . It couldn ´ t have been more harmful . She came out from the post-surgery stage with a strange spot on the left leg and pains that we all thought were typical consequences of the surgery , but we all were wrong . The spot was a burn injured suffered in the very operating room . Surgeons did not realize that she , already under general anesthesia , was accidentally pushed against a hightemperature device . The burn was so serious that its sequel resulted in a deep cavity that the human flesh couldn ’ t ever fill . She was discharged from the hospital on the third day after the operation . At night , we had to take her from the house to the polyclinic due to intense abdominal pain . From there she must return to the hospital . The medical exam of this recently operated patient showed that , by mistake , the right ureter — a conduct from the kidneys to the bladder — had been cut . bladder — had been cut . To correct such a medical blunder , the doctors told the family that , in addition to being so sorry because of the surgical mistake , she must undergo an emergency surgery to save her live , since the urine was spilling out of the ureter and it was necessary to insert an artificial one . To do this , it was also necessary to make an incision in right side for pulling the ureter out and attach a bag or urine collector . Finally , they offered two options : keeping the external collector until the end of her days by changing it every month , with the usual dose of pain , or removing the damaged kidney . The latter was examined and the doctors gave their opinion again : if the patient wanted , she could undergo another operation to get rid of the kidney and so also of the artificial urine collector . She made the decision to enter the operating room once again , but no one thought that her nerves would betray her . A few hours before being taken to the operating room for the third time , my mother-in-law escaped from the hospital . Until today the doctors are waiting and my mother-in-law is in despair , traumatized by the circumstances faced at a hospital that is designed to save lives , not to take them or to embitter them .
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