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Short Story By Mike Baharmast 1-94
From a book of short stories titled "Untruly Funny Stories" 
For more, see "README.TXT"
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Scene: 1997. post Clinton Health Alliance era


From: John Stevens, Stevens Investigation Agency
To: Heather Smeal, Grievance Coordinator, Regional Healthcare Alliance 
    Corporation# 24, Ogdan Utah
Re: Medical Procedure mix up               

This is our official report as required according to Healthcare Directives 
Law of 1995 section 139.54.28.

On July 15th 1997 Mrs. Jawaher Sing, at the time four months pregnant, was 
admitted to Mercy hospital in Phoenix Arizona for a sonogram procedure. On 
the same day Mr. Okiel Jones was admitted for a sex change operation. The 
directive issued by the Alliance from Ogden, assigned Mrs. Sing for sex 
change and Mr. Jones for the sonogram. The hospital, according to the 
Healthcare Directives Law of 1995 section 87.3.38 is directed to carry 
out the Alliance directives and they did. The detail of our investigation 
revealed the following :

Under the Alliance rules hospital patient preparation for non-emergency, 
non-life threatening, and routine procedures are handled by nurses 
assistants which are to follow the written assignment form XA125-93J1.
At the time of preparation Mr. Okiel Jones was asleep and was wheeled 
of to the sonogram room. There he was given a sonogram by doctor Paul 
Delvin, knowing full well that he was a balding, bearded, 45 year old 
black man with no possibility of pregnancy. Although legally Dr. Delvin 
is supposed to follow the directive to the letter, we believe he did it 
mainly for laughs and to make a case of as he stated "a bonafied A class 
screw up that just had to happen".

Mrs. Sing was given a sedative by the nurses assistant, although her husband
, Mr. Ragiv Sing, voiced concern as to whether a sonogram patient needed 
sedation. She was then carted off to the operation preparation room 
where she was anesthetized. The doctors, not noticing any outward sign 
of pregnancy as there were none, completed the operation approximately 
at 2.00 am. When Mrs. Sing  woke up in the morning she discovered that 
she now had a penis and was naturally very upset. Mr. Sing then accosted 
the head nurse and had to be arrested.  Mrs. Sing's two other children 
were taken to HRS until the sex of their mother could be straightened out. 
Mrs. Sing's grandmother had a heart attack.

In this case we believe that section 345.345.45.6 of the Healthcare 
Directives Law of 1995 should be evoked to remedy Mrs. Sing's situation. 
We do see a problem with the text in the said section "a 90 day cooling 
off period shall be observed between dispute and remedy initiation". 
Mrs. Sing no longer has a vagina and should a premature birth be in the 
cards away from the hospital the baby has no exit source.