Minn. surgeon needs two tries to remove appendix

[red states rule]

So when Obama and the Dems take over the health care industry - will these stories become a thing of the past?

By that I mean, will the mistakes stop or will the liberal media simply no longer report them?



Minn. surgeon needs two tries to remove appendix

SHAKOPEE — A state investigative report said a surgeon performed an appendectomy on the same patient twice after he mistakenly removed a piece of fatty tissue instead the first time. The Star Tribune reported that the surgeon realized his mistake two days after the first operation after a hospital pathologist reported what was removed was "not an appendix."

The patient had been complaining of pain and fever and was ordered back for a second surgery.

The by now ruptured appendix was removed, after which the unidentified patient spent 11 days in the hospital with complications from the second surgery.


http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/0...emove-appendix

[PostmodernProphet]

I recall one of the cases we studied in law school involved a doctor who inadvertently removed the wrong leg from a patient suffering from gangrene.......