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Patient Safety: Wrong-site surgery on knee ends with sanctions.

By Steve Lombardi

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Mariam Hospital, Rhode Island

One doctor and two nurses sanctioned were sanctioned by their professional licensing boards for conducting a wrong-site surgery on the wrong knee. The patient became aware of the wrong knee being operated on after she awoke.

http://www.clipsyndicate.com/publish/video/840896

Our first reaction is to gasp, but this is more common of a problem then one might think. While I can't applaud the mistake the public discussion and sanction is encouraging. Public discussion will bring attention to a problem that has for too long been kept hidden in secret peer review records. The public safety is at stake and patients deserve better from the medical profession and hospital systems. Mistakes will occur but the public should have this type of information to know what risks attend to surgery so they too can act to protect themselves.

For more information watch these video clips from WPRI CBS 12 Providence and from KMGH ABC Denver.

Elizabeth Hopkins reporting.

http://www.clipsyndicate.com/publish/video/760898

Study: Operating On Wrong Site Rare KMGH ABC Denver
Jun. 04, 2008. 04:17 AM EST

http://www.clipsyndicate.com/publish/video/615040

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Steve Lombardi

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).