Irony and Incompetence
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The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is holding a disciplinary hearing for a Toronto gynecologist. A medical expert testified that there were problems with 37 out of 70 hospital cases administered by the gynecologist. Some of the more stunningly egregious errors include performing a tubal ligation on a woman who was already pregnant & nicking a patient's bowels during surgery. This isn't the first time this gynecologist has been in trouble; in 2001 he had a disciplinary hearing in which he was accused of mis-prescribing mistoprol and missing the diagnosis of a ruptured uterus & falsifying records among other things. All in all, the man seems fairly incompetent.
So why do I bring this up, you wonder? There was one detail about the case that struck me as being deliciously ironic. The doctor in question is a Sankar Vaidyanathan, a name that seems fairly innocuous until you consider the etymology of his name. In Sanskrit, "Vaidya" means physician, as it does in Hindi.
Yours in inappropriate chortling,
Sharon
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is holding a disciplinary hearing for a Toronto gynecologist. A medical expert testified that there were problems with 37 out of 70 hospital cases administered by the gynecologist. Some of the more stunningly egregious errors include performing a tubal ligation on a woman who was already pregnant & nicking a patient's bowels during surgery. This isn't the first time this gynecologist has been in trouble; in 2001 he had a disciplinary hearing in which he was accused of mis-prescribing mistoprol and missing the diagnosis of a ruptured uterus & falsifying records among other things. All in all, the man seems fairly incompetent.
So why do I bring this up, you wonder? There was one detail about the case that struck me as being deliciously ironic. The doctor in question is a Sankar Vaidyanathan, a name that seems fairly innocuous until you consider the etymology of his name. In Sanskrit, "Vaidya" means physician, as it does in Hindi.
Yours in inappropriate chortling,
Sharon
10 comments:
Guess he couldn't live up to his name! :P Incompetence in medical care is a weed that must be sprayed with Roundup Ready, but only *AFTER* reading the voluntary labelling. :P
thank god my name has no such weighty meaning :D
Yes, "princess" has no weighty connotations whatsoever. :P
Buahahaha.
Oh dear.
Buahahaha.
Gah.
I'm torn between amusement and horror...
stephen: oh hush, you. :P
hem: I KNOW! I find the name thing amusing, but then this guy is so stunningly incompetent it borders on malevolence!
Well, one derivation of the word "physician" is the French "fisique", meaning "art of healing". From *this* etymology, the gynecologist was clearly not living up to his name. :P
The UN Convention on Frequent Updating is displeased and wishes to see an update. :P
*converts to americanism, pokes fun at the UN and runs away*
*converts to americanism*???
Do you *want* to be destroyed in the late 2010s and replaced by a Free World Alliance of sorts? :D
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