Grandma's House

Mary McClintock, a 69 year old woman who worked with the disadvantaged, died Tuesday in a hospital in Seattle, because of a stupid mistake. During a brain aneurysm procedure, she was injected with an antiseptic instead of a dye marker which would show up on an x-ray. This is inexcusable. The two solutions should not have been in the same type cups. Even using the same cups, they should have been marked in some way so as not to use the wrong one. The people responsible for this stupid mistake are the scrub nurse who would have worked the sterile field, the circulating nurse, and the doctor, in that order. Some form of disciplinary action must be taken in this case. Mistakes of this magnitude cannot be permitted. This woman suffered a horrible death, which took 19 days, and steps have to be taken to insure this does not happen again. I know I may seem overly passionate about this sort of thing, but I worked in a hospital for 6 years, and I know how truly idiotic this mistake was. My heart goes out to the family for their loss. My heart also goes out to the people who go to that hospital, as they could be facing the same morons who killed that woman.