Surgical mishap creates a moral debt?

[Oh_hunnihunni]

The poor guy who lost a working lung and now has inoperable cancer in the other one reckons he is owed an organ transplant to replace the one removed by a surgical mishap.

I am a donor, and have not only donated my own blood and bone, but made that happen for my husband after his accident, so I have an interest in this matter. But I would be keen to hear other opinions...

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[Lilith7]

I think he shiuld be immediately added to that list; if medical misadventure/mistakes isn't a reason for transplant surgery then it certainly should be.

[alpha111]

I was talking to a man the other day whose brother in-law had a heart valve transplant at Bowen Hospital in Wellington. The valve was too small and had to be replaced. Then complications and a transfer to Wellington Hospital where he died.
Bowen was now chasing his sister for another $7,000 !!!

[nzoomed]

Thats a pretty sad story, imagine going through this surgery and waking up to learn that news, it baffles me how they can get things like this wrong.
Quite often the surgeons never get held to account.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Oh tell me about it. I have a twice fused ankle and a foreshortened leg courtesy of a surgeon who never bothered to tell me he had never done a fusion before, arrogant bastard. ACC covered his shame by fighting my misadventure claim, but kind of undermined that position by paying for a revision in a private hospital with the surgeon of my choice. It is a nasty procedure, no one wants to go through that twice, but being able to walk even short distances is kind of important. At least it didn't kill me.

And it was a good lesson in accepting that not all highly paid experts are perfect. Some of them make mistakes. I guess that makes them as human as the rest of us...

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I was talking to a man the other day whose brother in-law had a heart valve transplant at Bowen Hospital in Wellington. The valve was too small and had to be replaced. Then complications and a transfer to Wellington Hospital where he died.
Bowen was now chasing his sister for another $7,000 !!!

I hope she tells them to send the bill to ACC...

[nzoomed]

One would hope ACC come to the party.
I know someone who was paralysed after a mishap from spinal surgery and ACC covered everything.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Not as if ACC can't afford it...

[Lilith7]

Not as if ACC can't afford it...

But thanks to the slash & bash govt we have now, that may not always be possible.

[zqwerty]

I thought ACC was too busy playing the overseas stock markets these days.