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Abdominal re-operations

Posted by patta.radhakrishna on Mon, 31 May 2010

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Abdominal re-operation or re-opening is defined as a second operation performed within hours to a few days after the first operation.Quite often a re-operation is perceived by the patien's relatives as a major catastrophe and is believed to be a result of a poorly performed first operation.This perception is generally unfounded. Many a time it will be a planned second-look operation in certain surgical conditions and this is explained well in advance to the patients relatives during the first pr... Read More

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minil 02 Jun 10 9:08 AM This is the reason why doctors and nurses in the West usually have some kind of insurance. Here the patient's relatives don't ask for discount on the cost of surgery but make it a legal issue.In many of these cases, I think,neither the relatives nor the surgeons are to be blamed.