No wonder why people die in hospitals

[XTRAWLD]

Prime example of how easy things go wrong......

Linky (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2155&ncid=2155&e=4&u=/cpress/20040908/ca_pr_on_he/olive_oil_injection)

What if that was something else instead?

[evan938]

haha...thats too funny...im glad shes ok though...heres my question...what the hell are they doing masaging people with olive oil...ive never been to austria, im sure they arent some 3rd world country...but havent they heard of, oh i dont know, lotion, or some massage oil? not olive oil

[felixr]

actually evan . . its almost better that it was olive oil instead of some other sort of non natural oil or worse, some sort of toxic oil that otherwise wouldnt be problematic but once ingested or injected in this case could cause toxic shock and kill the person. at least with olive oil she will only probably just gain weight, or have the runs . . .or perhaps always be craving things like italian bread or vinegar and salad . . . or pasta . . .although the body COULD attack the oil and push it out into the skin creating a huge nasty disgusty oily pusy(as in pus not puss-y) boil . . . . glad its not me thats all

[evan938]

yea i guess that makes sense...maybe they should kick the "vial" system then

[felixr]

disgusting*

[tniv1]

wtf? wouldn't you have tasted it first? I mean, really!

[kylemorg]

Also, I don't know about Australia, but here in the USA antibiotics are put into sealed ~30ml vials with a rubber septa (plug) on the top which only a syringe needle can be pushed through.

I've never seen and can think of no reason why you'd put olive oil into that kind of vial; there'd be no way you could get it out to do a massage.

That means that the person doing the injection doesn't know his *** from a hole in the ground! He must have graduated last in his class at medschool.