“Getting a Leg Up” or “Patient’s Right”

A Scotland prosthetics expert put a second left leg on a patient who needed the right, and failed to notice the mistake in follow-up visits. He has now lost his right to practice, but thinks he lost his left to practice.

The patient was very upset, saying, “How would he feel if the shoe was on the other foot?”

It just goes to prove that old adage, ‘[Two lefts don’t make a right.’

After getting no help in 2 later visits to the hospital, the patient finally had to put his foot down.

If a civil suit is filed, the case could limp along for years.

If the patient has to testify, he is ready to hop to it.

The patient had planned to sue, but doesn’t have a leg to stand on.