Over the last few years my family have had to undergo a number of medical procedures that would be classed as routine by the medical profession including:
Kidney removal
Hernia repair
Cartilage repair
Hysterectomy
There have been long waits for these operations (longest 18 months, shortest 20 weeks), and during that time the patient has been unwell and/or in pain. When speaking to the doctors they were all I presume trying to reassure by saying don't worry you are just waiting for a routine operation. It maybe routine for them, but for the patient it's a life changing hopefully one off operation nothing routine about it at all.
What's made me now write this post is that with regards to the junior doctor's strike this week, the doctor's were saying that "only routine operations were cancelled" like that's okay because they were routine.
But for those patients affected AIBU to think there is nothing routine about the operation? The operation will hopefully cure, improve or enhance their life in some way - otherwise why would they be having it.
AIBU to think that doctors need to stop thinking of common or high occurrence operations as routine (which I appreciate they are for the doctor) as they are not for the patient?
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AIBU?
To think from a patient's point of view there is no such thing as a "routine" operation?
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Oneandtwoandthree · 14/01/2016 07:31
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