Op-Ed: British man gets appendix taken out twice

Appendixes may come and they may go, but how many patients have had them removed twice in just a bit more than a month? At least one.

In the UK The Daily Mail-Online reports on another in a long line of stories about socialized health care. A British gent Mr. Wattson, had his appendix taken out - twice. Actually, while something may have been taken out the first time, no one at Great Western Hospital is willing to take a guess at what it may have been which was removed in the first surgery. Apparently the British system has some sort of learn as you go surgical training perhaps? At any rate, aftrer the first surgery, the wound got infected and then four weeks late as Emeril says "BAM" Mr. Wattson doubled over at the pain and was rushed to the hospital (or was it a veterinary service?) only to find out with a x-ray, he still had an appendix. Mr. Wattson is now recuperating from his ordeal, but has as a side affect, lost his employment. That is just absolutely perfect, I want some of that, give me a well trained veterinarian or plumber in the process of a mid-life career change any day instead of a real Mister Doctor surgeon kind of person to open me up with knives, start ripping out bits and pieces which I'm sure I have no further use for and then sew me up with an old sail needle and a bit of colored yarn, preferably a nice magenta color to go with the blood and gore laying about. And I'm sure we all hope the Great Western Hospital in Swindon U.K. is able to figure out what was removed the first time and whether or not it might be of any particular importance or not.