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A plea for surgical error

2021-02-28T19:10:42.693Z


CHRONICLE - In his book Straight to Error, Duty of Transparency, Professor Éric Vibert recalls that if you are a surgeon, you are nonetheless a man.


"

Everyone in the surgical world would benefit from knowing my mistake."

Eric Vibert was wrong, and he would like that to be known.

What is not common in his specialty: expert in liver diseases at the Paul-Brousse hospital in Villejuif, he is a surgeon.

A profession where even less than elsewhere one does not boast of one's mistakes ...

Professor Vibert does not hesitate to tell us about his at length.

A young woman, a nurse at her hospital, is the carrier of a benign liver tumor which could be a problem in the event of pregnancy.

Getting rid of

"that sword of Damocles"

was not essential but

"seemed sensible"

.

A low-risk laparoscopic operation that goes

"wonderfully"

... Up to a very small hitch, a piece of sterile tissue called "lake" which does its own and a

"top of the field"

who passes by and signals that this is not really a problem.

But, the same evening, everything goes wrong: the patient is in pain and the drain is put in to collect any

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Source: lefigaro

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