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- From: cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson)
- Subject: Re: earthquakes during surgery
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.185917.20584@adobe.com>
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- References: <1993Jan21.232601.15723@kestrel.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:59:17 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.232601.15723@kestrel.edu> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes:
- }Does anyone know what is done about the possibility of an earthquake during
- }surgery, in the real world?
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- I *hope* that for once the "$50 per Tylenol caplet" medical profession does
- *nothing* about this possibility. What are the odds of this being a real
- problem? What are the odds of the surgeon not reacting fast enough, even to
- a real "jolt" type earthquake? What are the odds of this being a problem
- vs. the odds the surgeon's arm is bumped in close operating quarters, or
- a drop of sweat drips into his/her eye at the wrong moment, or the patient
- has a freak muscle twitch at the wrong moment, or the scalpel slips in
- the surgeon's hand, or you don't come out of the anesthetic, or....
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- This is akin to people on the wrong coast who would never dream of living
- where earthquakes are a major possibility, but they'll drive in downtown
- Boston or on the Washington D.C. beltway system every workday.
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