A major twin-cites hospital admitted its doctors had committed a terrible medical mistake.  Apparently the mistake occurred last Wednesday when a cancer patient was to have a failing kidney removed.  Doctors apparently left the failing kidney, and removed the healthy kidney instead.

The medical mistake was discovered the following day when a pathologist examined the kidney and found no signs of cancer.  This lead doctors to believe the cancerous kidney was still inside the patients body.

The hospital has admitted its mistake and released the information to the public voluntarily.  The medical mistake is being blamed on error in the patient’s medical chart, which occurred a few weeks before the actual surgery.

The surgeon involved in this matter has voluntarily stopped seeing patients until the internal investigation is completed.  Reports indicate that a new policy at Methodist Hospital has been enacted to prevent such mistakes from happening again.

The patient has chosen to stay at Methodist Hospital for follow-up care.

The patient’s options are now limited to saving the cancerous kidney, removing it and going on dialysis, or finding a suitable kidney for transplant.

More information about this horrible medical mistake can be found here.

Tags: Doctors Remove Wrong Kidney, Methodist Hospital

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