Tucker Carlson Network
2026-09Sep-30 Wed — 9:07 AM (3 hours ago)
TCN Morning Note
Marshall Worth
September 30, 2026
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Ohio Woman Sues Doctor for Amputating the Wrong Leg
An Ohio woman is suing her surgeon for allegedly cutting off the wrong leg. She says she went into surgery expecting to lose her right leg, but woke up without her left. As a result, she is now a double amputee.
The victim required an amputation after doctors found cancer in her right leg, but the team at Selby General Hospital mistakenly removed her healthy left leg instead, according to the 32-page complaint filed by the woman’s attorney. The suit argues that the surgeon’s actions amounted to a failure to follow basic patient-safety protocols and constituted what healthcare standards classify as a “never event.” The National Library of Medicine describes “never events” as “the most egregious of patient safety incidents.”
We do not know how much money the plaintiff is seeking, but it is probably an enormous amount. The poor woman is literally legless. We hope you will send her your prayers.
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Might be nice to know what those “never events” are?
Argh!
Way back when I was in the USAF, they were always finding “make work” jobs to keep young airmen (I guess it’s now Air “persons”) busy while they were waiting out a delay (i.e., orders not arrived yet; medical “light duty”, waiting for the next class date for training).
Anyway, “we” — linguists with security clearances and survival school training — were often sent to the chaplain or the hospital as “workers”.
Don’t laugh chaplains were notorious for not keeping up with bureaucrat “requirements” (i.e, attendance at services numbers; inventorying prayer books, and when were the last inspections done and for what). (Seriously, what does a chaplain “inspect”? That everyone has the required sets of underwear? Argh!).
I guess I could define “me delving a baby” as a ‘’never event”?
Sigh!
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Getting back to the point, because we had survival school we were considered “qualified for non-technical medical duties”, which surprisingly didn’t include janitorial duties (union), bedpan duty (LPN required, thankfully), or anything with confidential medical information. (You wonder why taxes are too high?)
So we’d often get to count supplies in the hospital. That had already been counted by the pharmacist and the Head Nurse.
Always, joked I was ready to deliver a baby if no one else was available. Almost got the chance on a New York bound commuter train stuck due to a bridge opening, the woman didn’t cooperate and was still very pregnant she the rescue squad boarded.
Shucks. I had the commandeered newspapers all laid out like they taught. Although I still wonder where we would get newspapers on a combat aircraft? (Do they even print newspapers today? Guess we could layout phones and newspapers on the floor all displaying a newspaper!) And, since I was on the local rescue squad, I always carried gloves in my back pocket. Laugh! All to no avail.
P.S., I’d also tell pregnant Moms-to-be that if they named their baby Ferdinand, I’d put them in my will. Never any takers.
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