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R.I. hospital performs brain surgery…on the wrong side!

And for the third time this year!  From Breitbart/AP:

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.

“We are extremely concerned about this continuing pattern,” health department director David R. Gifford said in a statement Monday. (Ya don’t say? – Ed.)

The hospital issued a statement saying it was re-evaluating its training and policies, providing more oversight, giving nursing staff the power to ensure procedures are followed, among other steps.

Hey, isn’t Rhode Island one of the bluest, most liberal states in the union?  Just sayin’.

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November 28, 2007 - Posted by | shameful

5 Comments »

  1. Fined a whole $50,000 eh? Don’t doctors charge quite a bit more for that particular surgery alone? The hospital is “re-evaluating its training”? How much training does a doctor need to tell left from right? My GOD!

    Comment by TheBad | November 28, 2007

  2. Who knows maybe the doc decided the lib needed a lobotomy more than the tumor removed.

    Comment by WMD_Maker | November 28, 2007

  3. WMD makes a good point there.

    Comment by Jenn | November 28, 2007

  4. I think they only operate on the right side in an attempt to take it out.

    Comment by Murphy Klasing | November 28, 2007

  5. I heard about this last night, and it was a bit more chilling to me than most.

    I get calls and faxed orders from that hospital pretty much every week.

    There’s a good chance my company’s instruments were used in those particular surgeries.

    There’s also a chance I may have filled the order for the burrs that cut into these people’s skulls.

    Maybe I should have done the surgery. I could have at least followed the charts and picked the correct side. My company did teach me how to make a burr hole in a skull and cut a flap. I’m on the road to Rhode Island…

    Comment by ManicNole | November 29, 2007


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