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• Wrong Site Errors Egregious Example of Medical Malpractice

  • Posted On: January 7, 2013
  • By: Kevin Quinn

  While many have seen bad horror movies where surgeons operate on the wrong patient or amputate the wrong limb, most presume this could never happen in real life. Rather than a freakish improbable event, wrong site surgery accounts for 13 percent of all medical errors or omissions in medical malpractice cases. According to the American… Read More »

  • Posted in Medical Malpractice
  • Tagged medical malpractice, universal protocol, wrong patient surgery, wrong site surgery
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