tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post7943793554055327831..comments2024-03-09T11:08:34.910+02:00Comments on other things amanzi: fasciotomyBongihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12918640034313468627noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-12853078188419221622010-01-21T11:03:02.829+02:002010-01-21T11:03:02.829+02:00beit, what you are describing sounds frighteningly...beit, what you are describing sounds frighteningly like organ trafficking.amanzimtotihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00547897825508141342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-63192844187540445812010-01-15T20:44:12.750+02:002010-01-15T20:44:12.750+02:00I take my last comment back: South Africans aren&#...I take my last comment back: South Africans aren't necessarily more disinhibited than others. On further thought, I think it is just your exposure to violence. If we were seeing 3 shaken babies a day, everyday, the filter between our brains and our mouths would also be thinner. I am sure we would have choice words too. In my defense though, you have written posts in the past regarding your desensitization to violence and your threshold to confrontation.annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12697085927133582429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-52235964007302599102010-01-14T17:11:11.996+02:002010-01-14T17:11:11.996+02:00if you dont like nursing car tsosti`s then you can...if you dont like nursing car tsosti`s then you can come and work in my new clinic. It is state of the art. I just bring in an HIV negative peasant, laparoscopically remove their kidney and transplant it into a needy middle eastern from places like Dubai or Abu-dabi. There is lots of demand for such a service. My theater and ICU is scrupulously clean, i only employ the best nurses and get the doctors to take out important things like central lines. I would never be as unscrupulous as to remove both kidneys. I pay well in US DOLLARS. My clinic is in an old farm house near the Limpopo. people think it is just a hunting farm, but its state of the art. lots of willing zimbabweans come in. over the river (if they are lucky to miss the crocodiles). they then go on to louis trickard and buy televisions and return over the river with t.v.s balanced on their heads. I worry their last kidney might get Bilhazia though. Can you take out a kidney or do i need a urologist?beitnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-46944894616259676562010-01-11T21:06:43.165+02:002010-01-11T21:06:43.165+02:00This is the kind of post that shocks me the most. ...This is the kind of post that shocks me the most. We wouldn't dare say that to a patient here, and it isn't that we aren't adequately provoked. For instance, I can remember a case about a 18 months ago of a shaken baby: 5-week-old baby with 3 subdural haematomas of varying ages and degrees of bleeding, 2 frontal, 1 occipital. In other words, the baby was shaken repeatedly. The parents had a ridicules story, and the entire medical team (pediatrics, neurosurgery, forensic medicine etc) wanted nothing to do with them. The baby was all we cared about. The parents were never spoken to alone, always as a team, and the bare minimum was said. I am not saying that your friend did anything wrong. To the contrary, I find his comments refreshing. I am sure that some choice words could have been said to these parents, but we didn't dare. The cultural differences between SA and Europe are sometimes very surprising. It is more than just the level of ambient violence that you are faced with. I think that there might be a frankness in the SA psyche that isn't in other countries.annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12697085927133582429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-18178358863813745922010-01-11T06:48:38.860+02:002010-01-11T06:48:38.860+02:00Damn...great post. What the hell is that lazy sec...Damn...great post. What the hell is that lazy security guy doing now? Hopefully, his car is still safe.<br /><br />Best of luck to you all.StorytellERdochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14371229500424449124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-76268363620839156772010-01-10T18:32:50.590+02:002010-01-10T18:32:50.590+02:00My comment was regarding the truth of your last li...My comment was regarding the truth of your last line, but doc-z beat me to it. <br /><br />It's hard for a Canadian ex-pat in the Republic of Ireland to imagine having such violence in my environment. I am always truly amazed and gobsmacked by what you have to see in your jobs in S.A.Albinoblackbearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15222730484450544498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286253.post-27737290840229078472010-01-09T06:28:15.341+02:002010-01-09T06:28:15.341+02:00Your last line is completely true. Everyone knows ...Your last line is completely true. Everyone knows that tsotsi's and taxi drivers never die!Mike Blackburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09903272036126194311noreply@blogger.com