by Chris Holland
"They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo," said Iakovos Brouskelis, the director of the hospital in an interview with MSNBC.com.
Imagine being born with your twin sibling that you never even knew about, being inside your stomach. This past Thursday in Greece, a nine year old girl complaining about stomach pains went to the hospital where doctors found a two inch fetus with a head, hair, and eyes but no brain or umbilical cord or brain.
Doctor Andreas Markou said to an MSNBC columnist that this birth defect occurs in about one of every 500,000 live births.
How can a girl live for nine years and have doctors not find a living embryo in her stomach? Apparently, they just missed it in every exam she ever had at a doctor’s office.
To miss that would have to mean that the doctors weren’t very well trained. Even during a regular physical, while using a stethoscope shouldn’t the doctors be able to hear more than one heartbeat? But really, if you can hear two heartbeats in one person’s body, they must know that something wrong is going on there.
The girl has now made a full recovery and is back at home but this should have been discovered earlier. These doctors need to have more training then what they have already if they aren’t going to catch something like that at an earlier stage. Or maybe they just need more competent doctors. Either way, the doctors should have caught this at an earlier stage.
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Grotesque, but fascinating.
Huge leap in logic and argument: "To miss that would have to mean that the doctors weren’t very well trained." This is an arbitrary conclusion you reached which may or may not be true, but you have no proof either way.
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