Neurosurgeon In Kenya Operated On Brain Of Wrong Patient
March 17, 2018
Wrong patient surgery or wrong site surgery doesn’t just occur (rarely) in the United States. A neurosurgeon in Kenya recently operated on the brain of the wrong patient and the error was not discovered until more than two hours into the delicate operation, when the neurosurgeon was unable to [...]
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Surgical Forceps Left In Patient For 18 Years
January 14, 2017
When a 54-year-old Vietnamese man had a stomach ache and sought medical care, little did he suspect that an x-ray would find that the cause of his problems was surgical forceps that were apparently left in his abdomen near his colon during emergency surgery that he had eighteen years earlier followi[...]
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British Surgeon Performed Vasectomy On Wrong Patient
April 1, 2016
A British surgeon (urologist) faces professional discipline for allegedly performing a vasectomy on a patient in February 2014 who was supposed to have scar tissue removed. Instead, the surgeon performed a vasectomy on the patient. The patient evidently was taken to the operating room out of order [...]
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