"What Doctors Didn't Want Me to Know about Gall Bladder Surgery" by Elizabeth E. LaBozetta

What Doctors Didn't Want Me to Know about Gall Bladder Surgery: "I had the laparoscopic cholecystectomy August 9th, 1991. A resident physician performed it without my knowledge or consent and the consent form I was given makes no mention of a resident substitution for the licensed, credentialed, already-practicing doctor I had chosen to do it. With this new procedure, outcome is directly related to experience; I believed I was getting the man I picked never suspecting that once on the table I'd be getting a trainee.

The doctor trainee severed the bile duct, patched it with a piece of small bowel, and I was sent home to die, deliberately kept ignorant of what had happened and left wondering why I was so sick, getting sicker."
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You have to read the full story... it's frightening.