Maybe I’ve watched a bit too much of Final Destination when I was a kid.
But I’ve always had a big fear of surgeries or other medical procedures going wrong.
You: Wait, how did you watch Final Destination as a kid? Aren’t those films M18?
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Me:
Moving on…
Botched surgeries may be rare in first-world countries with quality healthcare, but they still happen.
What’s worse is when the doctor gives you the completely wrong medical procedure.
How does that happen?
I don’t know, but it did in South Korea, on Wednesday (25 September).
Abortion Gone Wrong
With the prevalence of plastic surgery in South Korea, one might expect that their surgical standards should be pretty top-notch.
But seems like their expertise doesn’t extend outside of their speciality.
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Picture this:
You’re a young Vietnamese woman and you entered a clinic in Seoul. You tell the doctor that you’re having a stomachache.
“Okay,” he says, and he brings you to lie down. He injects you with some anaesthesia, and you pass out.
Next thing you know, you’re waking up and the doctor says: “It’s done”.
“What’s done?” You asked with a confused look.
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“The baby. We’ve removed it.”
You: “NANI?!”
While some of the details were fabricated, that is the basis of what happened to the Vietnamese woman, who was given an abortion by mistake.
No legitimate details are out currently, but the police are looking to prosecute the doctor and nurse.
A local news source reported that medical charts were mixed up and the woman was mistaken for another patient who was seeking an abortion after suffering a miscarriage.
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However, the police investigator has not confirmed its truthfulness.
Abortion in South Korea
While abortion had been banned in South Korea for nearly 66 years, it was recently overturned earlier this year in April but has until the end of 2020 to be revised.
Under the current law, abortions are only legal in exceptional cases such as rape, incest, or if the woman’s health is at risk.
Even when banned, illegal abortions are still highly popular, with over 49,700 taking place in 2017 and 94% of them illegal.
The laws were also rarely enforced, with only 80 women or doctors arrested between 2012 to 2017, and only one actually jailed.
What do you think?
In all seriousness, this is an extremely rare outlier case.
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South Korea is still a great place for medical care.
If you want to fly there for a plastic surgery procedure, go right ahead.
I’m sure they wouldn’t take your entire face off by mistake.
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