News tagged with 'Wrong Site Surgery'

It sounds like a good idea in theory. But half of doctors surveyed say they do not report incompetent colleagues or serious medical errors.  The startling revelation appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine. In the survey 3,504 practicing doctors were asked whether they understand and support professional standards.  93 percent of doctors responding believe one should always alert authorities when facing potential medical malpractice. But in reality only 55 percent said they always did so.

A Michigan jury recently awarded $500,000 to a five-year-old boy whose doctor performed surgery on a wrong organ. In October 1997, Alexander Totte underwent an operation at Sparrow Hospital & Health Systems in Lansing to cure a urinary problem caused by myelomeningoceles spina bifida, a defect that prevents closure of

According to a report released by the state Department of Health, a Rhode Island surgeon recently operated on the wrong side of a patient's brain. The man was hospitalized in order to undergo a procedure to drain blood from his brain. Health officials say a CT scan image was improperly placed on an x-ray viewing box,

The Florida Board of Medicine recently disciplined a prominent surgeon in a well-respected Tampa hospital after he accidentally removed a woman's breast. The doctor, whose name is being withheld, is the head of the breast clinic at Moffitt Cancer Center. According to the Florida Board of medicine, this is the doctor'