Florida Doctor Removes Wrong Organ

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Florida doctor removes wrong organ from patient, resulting in ‘immediate, catastrophic death’

Long story short - guy was visiting Florida and he felt pain in his abdomen. He went to the hospital to get checked, and they told him he was likely to have a problem with his Spleen. He was advised to have immediate surgery. Turned out yes, he had a cyst on his Spleen - but that was found in autopsy.

In the actual surgery, the doctor accidentally removed the guys LIVER. This caused extensive bleeding, and death. The surgeon wrote off the Liver as a Spleen.

Law suits following. Maybe worth avoiding Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital.
 

Wow how is this person even licensed and further more how are hospitals not providing oversight ....

Doctor was NOT in operating room alone ...where was the rest of staff in room they have knowledge of anatomy ..... scrub nurses / resident/ interns who may scrubbed in even the anesthesiologist. Yet no one spoke up ?
Surgery is a team sport ....

Article says " case was settled in confidence" meaning they wanted story to disappear.
 
This kind of mistake happens more often than we would like to think. That is why, when a limb has to be amputated, they first draw an X (or something) on it, so they won't accidentally amputate the one on the other side. It's not that rare an occurrence.

Not that this is any excuse, but one reason might be those ridiculously long shifts medical personnel can get. At least, according to the TV shows set in hospitals, some of the doctors and nurses are on duty for 24 hours at a stretch. If that is true, how can anyone think straight in that situation?
 

Muskrat said:
Well you could keep me up for a week and i would still not mistake a liver for a spleen. And i was a nurse not a doctor. That doctor needs to be prosecuted. He/she was somehow impaired.
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It sounds like the senior moment of all senior moments.
 
That was an attempt to answer my first and biggest question; "What the Hell was he thinking?"

"Senior moment" was just another way of saying "Not knowing what you're doing." He may have been a rookie for all I know.
 
VaughanJB said:
Florida doctor removes wrong organ from patient, resulting in ‘immediate, catastrophic death’

Long story short - guy was visiting Florida and he felt pain in his abdomen. He went to the hospital to get checked, and they told him he was likely to have a problem with his Spleen. He was advised to have immediate surgery. Turned out yes, he had a cyst on his Spleen - but that was found in autopsy.

In the actual surgery, the doctor accidentally removed the guys LIVER. This caused extensive bleeding, and death. The surgeon wrote off the Liver as a Spleen.

Law suits following. Maybe worth avoiding Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital.
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Best to avoid, "God's Waiting Room."
 
This 'doctor' has to be an idiot. So do those in the OR that were there to assist. ANY first year med student knows (at least they should), that w/o a liver you die. This wasn't an accident, it was pure negligence.
 
Sunny said:
This kind of mistake happens more often than we would like to think. That is why, when a limb has to be amputated, they first draw an X (or something) on it, so they won't accidentally amputate the one on the other side. It's not that rare an occurrence.

Not that this is any excuse, but one reason might be those ridiculously long shifts medical personnel can get. At least, according to the TV shows set in hospitals, some of the doctors and nurses are on duty for 24 hours at a stretch. If that is true, how can anyone think straight in that situation?
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Amputating the wrong leg happened 20 years ago in my city. After they amputated the wrong leg, they had to amputate the other leg too. And moreover the patient was a cook at this hospital.

But a more disturbing case happened in 2015: A man of 35 years had pain in his pr.state and a swollen pe.is. He got medication and was sent home. But the condition worsened. A second urologist sent him immediatly to a hospital with the diagnosis of priapism (a very painful ere.tion lasting for hours without any se.ual stimulation).

But then the patient got a sepsis and fell into coma. As he awoke from it his left lower thigh and his complete pe.is was amputated. He claimed a compensation of half a million Euro. At the court the judge didn't see a medical malpractice and the patient got nothing.
https://www.bild.de/regional/muench...-prozess-oberlandesgericht-40472530.bild.html (Article in the German "Bild")

Edit: Google removed the word 'pe.is' before -amputation in the link, thus the link broke. Censorship is quite silly. "Google, do you hear me? We are adults."
 

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