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Child Surgery: What should you be asking the surgeon?

By Steve Lombardi

pblockquote p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"emstrongWhat if your child had to have surgery?/strong/em/p /blockquote p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"/p pHow well do you know the surgeon who is performing surgery on your child or spouse? Maybe there is a question you should ask that they are afraid you might ask. Donrsquo;t let that stop you from asking./p pHave you ever had a wrong-site, wrong-patient or wrong-procedure surgery?/p pAfter a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21981965/"three wrong-site surgeries and a $50,000.00 fine the Rhode Island Hospital/a is trying to correct what is wrong. We applaud them for that corrective action./p blockquote pemldquo;The most recent case happened Friday when, according to the health department, the chief resident started brain surgery on the wrong side of an 82-year-old patient's head. The patient was OK, the health department and hospital said. /em/p pemIn February, a different doctor performed neurosurgery on the wrong side of another patient's head, said Andrea Bagnall-Degos, a health department spokeswoman. That patient was also OK, she said./em/p pemBut in August, a patient died a few weeks after a third doctor performed brain surgery on the wrong side of his head. That surgery prompted the state to order the hospital to take a series of steps to ensure such a mistake would not happen again, including an independent review of its neurosurgery practices and better verification from doctors of surgery plans./emrdquo;/p /blockquote pIf these were your doctors would you be justified in asking the ultimate question? /p pIf you were your child what would you want you to do?/p p /p/pa href="http://desmoines.injuryboard.com/medical-malpractice/child-surgery-what-should-you-be-asking-the-surgeon.aspx?googleid=253338"Originally posted/a at a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com"InjuryBoard/a by a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/Steve-Lombardi"Steve Lombardi/a

Full post as published by Des Moines Personal Injury Lawyer on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).