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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