{"id":4256,"date":"2009-03-27T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2009-03-27T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T18:02:51","slug":"for-the-surgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/27\/for-the-surgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Surgeon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. C:<\/p>\n<p>5 years ago, surgical residents at one of the top teaching institutions at one of the best hospitals in the country delivered my son.\u00c2\u00a0 In doing so, they used poor protocol and caused extensive scarring and infection.\u00c2\u00a0 I rationalized 2 and a half years of health problems as normal because I never would have doubted the solid training or benevolent intent of a medical provider.\u00c2\u00a0 Their surgical mistakes in a routine procedure cost me years of pain, put strain on my marriage, and when it was time for my daughter to be born, put her life in danger and nearly cost me vital organs.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe this surgery is routine and ordinary.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it&#8217;s sort of boring.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe it pays poorly and doesn&#8217;t offer you challenges or papers or glamor or any of the things you wanted from medicine.\u00c2\u00a0 But understand it is a very big deal to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Routine surgeries can cause irreparable harm.\u00c2\u00a0 I know.<\/p>\n<p>My trust in you to be thorough and professional and GOOD at your job is a Very Big Deal.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that.\u00c2\u00a0 Please.<\/p>\n<p>And thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The Mother of the child you are operating on today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. C: 5 years ago, surgical residents at one of the top teaching institutions at one of the best hospitals in the country delivered my son.\u00c2\u00a0 In doing so, they used poor protocol and caused extensive scarring and infection.\u00c2\u00a0 I rationalized 2 and a half years of health problems as normal because I never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[90,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4262,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions\/4262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}