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bigtree

(85,974 posts) Sun Mar 27, 2022, 07:16 AM Mar 2022

"If you can read this, wrong side, flip me over"

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"If you can read this, wrong side, flip me over" (Original Post) bigtree Mar 2022 OP

I was sure this was a wrong knee post bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #1

Funny story. I knew a surgeon who took out the wrong (healthy) lung. flying_wahini Mar 2022 #2

bucolic_frolic

(43,039 posts)

1. I was sure this was a wrong knee post

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2022, 07:57 AM

Mar 2022

IN the last few procedures relatives had, there were re-check procedures to ID a patient at several points and double check that they're doing the correct procedure in the correct place. So the assembly lines have quality control.

flying_wahini

(6,577 posts)

2. Funny story. I knew a surgeon who took out the wrong (healthy) lung.

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sun Mar 27, 2022, 10:10 AM

Mar 2022

It happens. It’s been almost 30 years ago, and he didn’t lose his license.

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