wow

[DO Sigma Nu guy]

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/16/wrong.kidney.reut/index.html

😱

 

[DoctorSaab]

How the heck do they do something like that?

 

[ShyRem]

This is why when you go into surgery, the surgeon should come in to see you BEFORE ANESTHESIA and mark on you with a sharpie - "THIS SIDE" and "DO NOT cut here" (or something along those lines). Every surgery that I've been "out" for the surgeon has come in and marked on me with sharpie if it hasn't been a visible wound. The last one he put a big "NO" on the healthy side and "FIX HERE" on the side to operate on. It helps the staff know/remember which side to prep, too.

 

[DeLaughterDO]

How the heck do they do something like that?

Not doing a surgical time-out will do it just about every time.. then there's always the "right..." litany that can help with a lot of medical errors:

Right Patient
Right Surgery
Right Room
Right Medication
Right Time

this can go on forever.

<cynic on> I guess the only good thing about this is that this happened in the UK, so this could not possibly be a D.O. <cynic off>

Still sad to see, regardless.. Hopefully they can help the guy out with a new kidney.

 

[dr.z]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/16/wrong.kidney.reut/index.html

😱

 

[gottalovemilk]

i wonder if this was caused by a scottish DO surgeon? *flame suit on*

 

[cadence]

Well golly by gosh, doctors are human!!!

Should it have happened? Definitely not, but given the number of surgeries world wide it WILL happen at some point. Yes, that is why you get marked in sharpie and that's also why you have a pathologist check on everything ever remvoed from a patient.

I was shadowing in path one time and the doc was telling me about receiving and document a gallblader one time. The next time she was given another case for the same patient who, you guessed it, had a gall bladder removed. The first thought was, who screwed up. But after going back through the records it was actually confirmed that the patient had 2 gall bladders.

 

[NonTradMed]

Holy @#$!

Poor guy, what'll he do now with one unhealthy kidney? He could seriously die from this. I'm smelling a major lawsuit coming up.....

 

[mysophobe]

i wonder if this was caused by a scottish DO surgeon? *flame suit on*

I'm Scottish you bastard. 😡

 

[DO Sigma Nu guy]

Holy @#$!

Poor guy, what'll he do now with one unhealthy kidney? He could seriously die from this. I'm smelling a major lawsuit coming up.....

Yea thats why I posted it. I just felt really sorry for him. I know people make mistakes...but d@mn that sucks.

 

[candyland]

Yea thats why I posted it. I just felt really sorry for him. I know people make mistakes...but d@mn that sucks.

ummm so did they realize this after the good kidney "went bad"??? I mean couldn't they have put it back in as if they were doing a kidney transplant??? I'm guessing they realized that after the surgery ended, hmmm 😕