Sara Limon is pictured on the front page of The Dallas Morning News holding up her shirt and exposing her very pregnant belly. She's complaining about the free care she received at Parkland Hospital. The News has made a big deal out of the fact that some residents actually perform surgery there. They think that's terrible because a whole bunch of Parkland's patients are charity cases. They claim that it's not fair to allow the residents to perform surgeries there, when they don't do so at nearby St. Paul.
At any rate, Sara claims (rather, her translator claims since she speaks very little English), that in February of 2007, a resident bungled her gall bladder surgery. There is no denial from Parkland that the surgery did, indeed, involve an accidental cut of the bile duct. She was taken back to surgery and the cut was repaired. Limon says that after the surgery, "Nobody told me anything." Well perhaps they did tell her but she doesn't understand English!
What is in contention is that Limon says she has continuing debilitating problems such as severe pain and nausea resulting from the surgery. The physicians can find nothing wrong. I have to wonder just how sick she really is. Despite no health insurance and no English (and probably no citizenship), Limon has four children and another due in October. Maybe sex makes her feel better.
"Human costs of training doctors." The Dallas Morning News; August 1, 2010; p. 1A.
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