Unbelievable and yet a now quintessentially Cypriot thing to happen. The incident in question is that doctors at a private hospital in Nicosia stopped mid-operation, dressed the patient in the operating theatre, and proceeded to discharge him on the grounds that there were no beds available for his admittance for treatment post-op on Sunday....
Read the article and chat about it below...
Doctors stop mid-operation, dress patient in operating theatre and discharge him
- Paphos Life
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Re: Doctors stop mid-operation, dress patient in operating theatre and discharge him
Well, that is absolutely disgraceful! I thought the hippocratic oath was for pledge to save lives? Why did they start the operation if there was no beds available? Poor man.
- mike strand2
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Re: Doctors stop mid-operation, dress patient in operating theatre and discharge him
I'm inclined to believe only part of this from facebook. I say lets wait & see if the authorities do ACTUALLY investigate & we get the results.
Re: Doctors stop mid-operation, dress patient in operating theatre and discharge him
We usually only hear bits of the story, wait until the whole story is known