Hospital Repeats Wrong-Sided Brain Surgery

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jrknothead
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29 Nov 2007, 1:42 am

Hospital Repeats Wrong-Sided Brain Surgery

I'm glad i'm not a brain surgeon, because i'd be doing this all the time... i totally can't remember which is left or right...



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29 Nov 2007, 5:45 am

8O

A friend of my mother's who had knee surgery took a black Magic Marker and wrote ==>DO THIS ONE! on one leg, and ==>NOT THIS ONE! on the other. At the time I thought "How OTT is that?"

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30 Nov 2007, 4:16 pm

It's not OTT when it's your body and you're going to be asleep when someone else cuts into it!! !

It's very disturbing how often this happens. It shouldn't happen at all.