You Never Told Me You Were Dyslexic
It seems that bad surgeries don’t just happen in other countries.
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.
Three strikes you’re out, I guess.
The hospital is owned by Lifespan, a not-for-profit corporation. It serves as a teaching hospital for Brown University.
What are they teaching those kids?
Elsewhere Online | Kabitzin 11/27/2007
By Catnip, 11/28/2007 @ 2:34 pm
actually I am terribly afraid of this happening. I took M to the doctors the other day to get her knee and foot x-rayed. I repeated several times “LEFT” knee and “RIGHT” foot, and the nurse still had to double check with me later.
By Kabitzin, 11/28/2007 @ 3:19 pm
Just write it on her knee and foot with a sharpie, so there can be no mistake.
By Tochi, 11/28/2007 @ 5:14 pm
You sure it wasn’t RIGHT knee and LEFT foot?
By Velius, 11/28/2007 @ 5:51 pm
Left eye and right elbow, what?
By Kabitzin, 11/28/2007 @ 7:49 pm
More like LEFT your wallet RIGHT on my desk.
By Velius, 11/28/2007 @ 7:52 pm
Nooo, my LEFT and RIGHT eyes!!! WHY????