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> Y6553 Performance of correct procedure (operation) on wrong side or body part That's horrifying.
by provemewrong 10y ago
> Y6553 Performance of correct procedure (operation) on wrong side or body part
That's horrifying.
- danohu 10y agoIt happens. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/us/doctor-who-cut-off-wrong-leg-is-defended-by-colleagues.html http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/17/us/doctor-who-cut-off-wron...
- DanBC 10y agoCoincidentally, two posts talking about this kind of never event, with links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773709 They do happen, but they're quite rare.
- ubertaco 10y agoWhen I was younger, I had a commercial-grade stapler (the big ones that advertise stapling through N-hundred sheets at once) go into my pointer finger on my left hand. The resulting bone infection eroded all the bone in my fingertip, which was reconstructed later from "donor" bone. Step one of the operation was getting taken back to a patient room, being given an IV (since I was not to eat or drink for 12hours before the operation), and waiting. After a few hours, a nurse walked in with a sharpie and wrote "NO" on my other hand. It wasn't comforting.