Almost 150 patients of Britain's National Health Service have been harmed by incidents that shouldn't ever happen, according to new figures - including the wrong patient receiving heart surgery, patients given overdoses and a woman who had her fallopian tube removed instead of her appendix. Official statistics for a six month period show that the major blunders include 37 cases of patients who underwent surgery on the wrong part of the body. In one case, the wrong patient was given a heart procedure.
One woman had the wrong fallopian tube removed during an ectopic pregnancy, probably rendering her infertile, and another had a fallopian tube removed instead of her appendix. More here [BJS]
One woman had the wrong fallopian tube removed during an ectopic pregnancy, probably rendering her infertile, and another had a fallopian tube removed instead of her appendix. More here [BJS]