>This sounds like something you'd read about in a third-world country in the 19th century.

Not even then. Neither third world country doctors nor 19th century physicians would confuse the liver for the spleen.

paradox460 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The ancient Greeks knew the difference. They may not have known what the spleen itself did, but they knew it wasn't the liver

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kotaKat 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You sure? I've seen enough terrible "surgeons" in rural America that'd rip out a liver all day long that washed out of their residency programs after "moving to Canada" and washing out of a crappy Vancouver hospital.

And there ain't no "kindly revert" when you pull the wrong organ.

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nneonneo 2 days ago | parent [-]

Curious - does Vancouver have an especially bad reputation for medicine, or did you pick the city/country arbitrarily?

Canada's medical training program seems to me to be reasonably rigorous; as an outsider it doesn't seem worse than a typical American medical program. Unfortunately it also suffers from severe (artificial!) shortages of doctors.

	▲	kotaKat 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How else do the third world country washout doctors end up in a rural clinic in nowhere America and end up with the Vancouver accent? Residency on the West coast in Canada. Always.