Interesting note: My girlfriend just got back from doing health work in Tanzania.Originally Posted by BroknBusted
There was one woman who had her stitches removed a few weeks after a c-section. She left the hospital, only to return a few hours later with her wound completely open, holding her intestines in her hands to keep them from falling on the ground.
Apparently, in a non-sterile procedure (but with gloves), doctors shoved her intestines back in her, slathered lidocaine over the exterior of the wound, and splashed iodine elsewhere before sewing her up again.
Just food for thought on "being in the medical field" and how sometimes, some places don't have the means for sterile procedures.
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