Archive for the ‘Oops!’ Category

Doctors Operate to Remove Failing Kidney and Remove the Good One Instead

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

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.

Military Acidentally Drops Bomb on Apartment Complex

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Jeremy Isbell and his wife returned home Thursday evening only to discover an errant dummy bomb had targeted their Tulsa apartment bathroom.  Besides losing electricity, the National Guard bomb had blown out the Isbell’s bathroom wall.

Apparently the 22 lb. BDU-33 practice bomb impacted the apartment complex at speeds of approximately 600 miles per hour.  Fortunately no injuries were reported.

It is unclear how the practice bomb released.  The National Guard  believe it somehow inadvertently released as the pilot headed from the Tulsa Air National Guard Base to Salina, Kansas.  Federal authorities are also interested in what happened and are investigating.

Further information about this story can be found here.  Additionally, an interview with Jeremy Isbell can be viewed in the video below.