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The Annoyed Man wrote:Dumbest thing I ever head a doctor say?

On my 3rd or 4th day in the hospital after back surgery, a neurosurgery resident came to remove the drain that was still in place in the wound. The primary incision was in my lower back, starting right at the top of where the Good Lord split me and going up from there; but the drain tube had been passed out to a receptacle through a secondary incision about an inch long a few inches south and to the right in my right butt cheek.

He told me two things:

1. "When I pull the tube out, it is going to sting." He was very right about that, and I don't fault him for saying it.
2. Him: "I have to put a couple of stitches in to close that incision."
   Me: "Are you going to numb it up a bit before you do that?"
   Him: (and this is the really dumb part) "Naaaaahhhh.... You've got so much insult going on back there that you're not even going to feel the stitches." He was so very, very wrong.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard a doctor say. May I suggest that, if a doctor ever tells you that you don't need a little lidocaine before he or she puts a couple of stitches in a 4 day old raw open wound in your butt cheek, that doctor is a stupid, stupid liar.

A couple of weeks later, when I had a follow up appointment at my neurosurgeon's office to have the stitches in my back removed, I told my doctor about what the resident had done, and I extended an offer to administer a whuppin' to that neuro resident if I ever met him again, and my doctor couldn't believe what he had done and said he would have a talk with him about it.