Hospital fined for wrong-side surgery
Shouldn't that be obvious?Rhode Island Hospital was fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health Monday after its third instance this year of a doctor performing brain surgery in the wrong side of a patient's head.
Third time? THIRD time???? In neurosurgery???? I'm not a doctor, but shouldn't it be pretty easy to tell one side of the brain from the other? And if it's not, shouldn't it be clearly marked on the X-rays, CT scans or whatever else the surgeon is using as a guide? And the hospital was fined $50,000 for the THIRD mistaken surgery? Shouldn't it have been $500,000, or $5 million, so they get the message?
Seems to me, a bunch of people need to get their heads examined.
Seems to me, a bunch of people need to get their heads examined.
2 comments:
I'd opt for $500,000 for the FIRST time someone operated by mistake on
the wrong side of a person's brain.
This is just unacceptable and so easily avoidable. Jeez, are these
"doctors" drinking before the surgery?
Left side? Right side? Hey, it's not brain surgery....
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