Doctors Operate to Remove Failing Kidney and Remove the Good One Instead
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008A 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.