Sunday, January 3, 2010

res ipsa loquitur

1 comment:

  1. Did you leave a scalpel behind?
    The thing speaks for itself.


    This is usually referred to in the "scalpel left behind" example of obvious negligence in the case of a physician, in which a person goes to a doctor with abdominal pains after having his appendix removed. X-rays show the patient has a metal object the size and shape of a scalpel in his abdomen. It requires no further explanation to show the surgeon who removed the appendix was negligent, as there is no legitimate reason for a doctor to leave a scalpel in a body at the end of an appendectomy.

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