The commissioner also noted it was the second time in two years that a device had been left in an Auckland hospital patient. Those present at the woman's operation included a surgeon, a senior registrar, four nurses, two anesthetists, two anesthetist technicians and a theater midwife. Now. Tae Watu, Aura group's director of operations for Auckland. Mike Shepard has issued an apology to the patient
And for those that don't know the story, he maimed or killed like 30 out of 38 patients to the point that the doctors that caught him assumed that he was catch me if you can. He was faking being a doctor. There was no way that he was trained to be a doctor, but he was in fact, trained to be a doctor. He just enjoyed hurting people. And he left gauze, and he would do spinal cord surgeries and leave gauze and tools in there
Arthur Benitez
@Arthur_Dante · 4:59
Hello. Hey guys. I would like to opinate on this subject because I have two conflicting points of view around this subject. So on one hand, it is just shocking that the medical team left this device inside this lady's body and they weren't able to to know that they have left it after just but only after 18 months, which is a very long time. It is over a year
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:33
Having worked in healthcare for two decades now, I have seen this happen several times. Basically, before surgery begins, there is a count. There's always an instrument count that happens before and after the procedure. So before they even open up the patient, they count and make sure all of the instruments that are needed for the surgery are there. They make sure they identify the patient. They make sure they identify they're operating on the right part