Doctors at a Rhode Island Hospital operated on the wrong side of a patient’s head for the third time in the same year. On November 23, 2007 an 82 year old woman needed an operation to stop the bleeding between her brain and skull. The Neurosurgeon started drilling on the right side of her head even though he was looking at the cat scan during the surgery. The bleeding was on the left side, not the right. The doctors caught the mistake and closed up the hole on the right side of her head, then began to drill on the left side of her head. She was fine even though the doctors made a mistake.
Another story was about an 86 year old man who had surgery done on the wrong side of his head. He died three weeks later because of the mistake.
A patient at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital had the wrong kidney removed when the patient went to have surgery to have the cancerous kidney removed. The day after surgery the Pathologist found no cancer on the tumor they removed which is how they found out it was the wrong kidney. The family didn’t want any details released for their own privacy.
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