Hospital reprimanded for doing wrong brain surgery

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Tim Titolo

Rhode Island Hospital has been fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health after its third instance this year of a doctor performing brain surgery in the wrong side of a patient's head.

I've heard of doctor's who amputate the wrong leg while the patient is on the operating table.  This lead to patients writing "this leg" on their leg before going in for surgery.  How, I wonder, can we help the busy, busy medical community to not drill holes in the healthy part of our brains?

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