At 10:54 AM 1/18/2003 -0600, you wrote:
At 05:19 PM 1/16/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:Jon Gabriel wrote:
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> http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SURGICAL_TOOLS?SITE=NYWNE&SECTION=HOME
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> Jan 16, 4:11 AM EST
> Surgery Tools Left in 1,500 People a Year
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Or they don't turn up until the patient sets off the metal detector in
the airport with the retractor she didn't know she still had in her....
(Anyone got a URL for an article on that one? It happened relatively
recently....)
I posted it to the list, but for some reason I can't find the URL this morning. I tried some searches, but didn't find the article. This is what I wrote, though:
At 08:02 PM 12/17/02 -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
OTOH, you may have heard the same story I did on the news today about the woman who was stopped when she set off the metal detector at the airport. The detector kept going off, even after she had removed all traces of metal from her person and clothing. It turned out that what was setting off the metal detector was a clamp which had been left in her abdomen after surgery some four months earlier . . .
BTW, what does "It's a Junior Mint" mean?
--Ronn!
From season four of Seinfeld, one of the best episodes ever.
6* The Junior Mint
Jerry's new girlfriend has a name that rhymes with a female body part, but Jerry can't remember it for the life of him. After making out with her, he knows that it is just too late to ask her about this. He and George ponder what her name may be in the Coffee shop. George thinks aloud and comes up with Mulva, Bovary, and Arethra. The name still can't be remembered. Jerry spends more time with her and attempts to look in her purse to find out her name. She catches him and he says he was just looking for some gum or a junior mint. Kramer enters the room and Jerry gets Kramer to introduce himself to her in hopes that she would be forced to reveal her own name. It doesn't work and then he tries the same thing when George enters the room. Jerry can only refer to this woman as "you." He mutters Mulva to her and inquires in a secretive way to see if this is her name. He then claims he has an aunt named Mulva and that her massages reminded him of her. She ultimately finds out that Jerry does not know her name and leaves. Just as she has left Jerry realizes her name and screams Dolores from his apartment.
Elaine discovers that a guy she once went out with is in the hospital and is about to undergo surgery. She remembers him from the past as fat and feels compelled to see him in the hospital but has Jerry pose as a boyfriend so that the guy doesn't get the wrong idea. Kramer also goes along to the hospital so that he can get some gloves to use in his apartment for redoing the wallpaper. In the hospital Elaine discovers that he has lost a lot of weight. He tells Elaine that after they broke up he was not able to eat for weeks. She naturally feels rather good about this effect she had on the man. Jerry goes to the corner and plays Yo Yo as Elaine tries to downplay her comments about Jerry being the boyfriend. Elaine arranges to have dinner with the man after the operation. She later tries to back out of this after she sees how he eats like a pig but Jerry won't help her with this. Kramer comments with the doctor about retractors which he heard about on 20/20 and the doctors tells him that those retractors will not be used. Kramer is invited to watch the operation, Jerry agrees to come to after commenting that it will be fun to see the guy cut open. Kramer snacks on Junior mints as the doctors operate and once even asks a doctor to move so he can get a better view. Kramer offers Jerry a mint but Jerry says no. Kramer persists and Jerry accidentally knocks the Junior Mint out of Kramer's hand and into the open wound of the man being operated on. Jerry and Kramer look on in horror and ponder what they have done. At first the man recovers from his operation but then falls very ill. George believes that the man may die so he invests $1900 in a painting by the man which he refers to as "the triangles." If the artist dies the panting could be worth some money he presumes. The man ultimately gets better and the doctor tells the gang that powers from above were at work to stay off the infection. This was humorous as the Junior Mint fell from above and into the wound earlier.
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