Tag Archives: wrong site surgery
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We talked recently about wrong site surgery, a type of wholly unnecessary medical mistake termed a never event. While steps are taken each year to reduce the occurrence of malpractice events, they still occur too often — as a recent study from John Hopkins Medicine reveals. What are never events? According to the Agency for… Read More »
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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 »