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10 amazingly stupid medical mistakes
Doctor — heavy and very demanding profession, but few know that doctors are not magicians. Responsible doctors will always do everything in order to help their patients. No one is immune from mistakes, all people make them and even doctors. But unfortunately, sometimes irresponsible doctors make extremely stupid mistakes in the most crucial moments during the treatment of their patients, which lead to irreparable consequences. About ten egregious cases of medical errors, we'll tell you more.
Gave birth to the wrong baby
Nancy Andrews of Commack, NY, became pregnant through artificial insemination. However, when the child was born, the doctors instantly realized that something went clearly wrong. Daughter Nancy was born with much darker skin than she expected. As it turned out, the doctors accidentally used another man sperm
Death after transplantation
17-year-old Jessica Santillan died 2 weeks after transplantation of heart and lung transplantation. Her transplanted organs whose blood type did not match her own
Amputation of a healthy egg
Doctors accidentally deleted completely healthy right testicle of 47-year-old air force veteran Benjamin Houghton. Surgery, doctors medical center of West Los Angeles had to remove the left testicle for fear of cancer. Benjamin Houghton and his wife have filed a lawsuit against the medical center and demanded compensation for moral and physical damage in the amount of $ 200,000 (~6,824 million rubles)
Scoring tool inside the patient
Donald Charco the tumor was removed from his abdomen at the University Medical center of Washington in Seattle in June 2000. After recovery, he found that the doctors left 33-inch metal plate in his stomach by mistake
"Operation" instead of a survey
67-year-old woman was admitted to hospital for cerebral angiography (x-ray examination of blood vessels). The next day after hospitalization, she was accidentally aimed at invasive study of cardiac electrophysiology. In fact, health workers are just confused bed patients and the woman mistakenly drove on the operating table and undergo surgery within the hour (they made an incision in the groin, puncture an artery, through which is slipped a tube in her heart). The study was soon interrupted and she was taken back to my room
Not that half
For the third time, doctors hospital of Rhode island conducted an operation on the wrong side of patient's head. 82-year-old woman needed surgery to stop bleeding in the skull. The neurosurgeon started the surgery by drilling the right side of the head of the patient... although bleeding occurred in the left half
Cut, but not
The surgeon accidentally removed the wrong leg of 52-year-old Willie king in 1995. Made some mistakes, which resulted in the patient prepared for amputation of the wrong leg. A team of surgeon mid-procedure, realized that they started the amputation of the wrong leg, but it was too late and they had to amputate the leg
Return the kidney in place
In Minnesota, the patient hospital Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital removed a healthy kidney. Doctors accidentally took out a healthy kidney instead of the one where you had a cancerous tumor and removed it, even after checking
I feel
A man from West Virginia named Sherman sizemore was admitted to the General hospital Role in Beckley in 2006. He needed surgery to determine the cause of abdominal pain. Before the surgery he did wrong anesthesia, causing Sherman sizemore was in a state where he was awake and could feel the pain and discomfort of surgery, but could not move and tell the doctors that he feels it. This case brought the 73-year-old Minister of the Baptist Church to suicide
Comedian was not amused
The former party Saturday Night Live (an evening music and Comedy show on the American channel) comedian named Dana Carvey, had to have two operations for coronary artery bypass surgery. During the first operation, surgeons mistakenly bypassed the wrong artery, and they urgently had to perform a second operation to save the life of a 45-year-old comedian. The essence of the operation is to create detours blood supply to the heart muscle, bypassing diseased arteries.
Source: 4tololo.ru
Gave birth to the wrong baby
Nancy Andrews of Commack, NY, became pregnant through artificial insemination. However, when the child was born, the doctors instantly realized that something went clearly wrong. Daughter Nancy was born with much darker skin than she expected. As it turned out, the doctors accidentally used another man sperm
Death after transplantation
17-year-old Jessica Santillan died 2 weeks after transplantation of heart and lung transplantation. Her transplanted organs whose blood type did not match her own
Amputation of a healthy egg
Doctors accidentally deleted completely healthy right testicle of 47-year-old air force veteran Benjamin Houghton. Surgery, doctors medical center of West Los Angeles had to remove the left testicle for fear of cancer. Benjamin Houghton and his wife have filed a lawsuit against the medical center and demanded compensation for moral and physical damage in the amount of $ 200,000 (~6,824 million rubles)
Scoring tool inside the patient
Donald Charco the tumor was removed from his abdomen at the University Medical center of Washington in Seattle in June 2000. After recovery, he found that the doctors left 33-inch metal plate in his stomach by mistake
"Operation" instead of a survey
67-year-old woman was admitted to hospital for cerebral angiography (x-ray examination of blood vessels). The next day after hospitalization, she was accidentally aimed at invasive study of cardiac electrophysiology. In fact, health workers are just confused bed patients and the woman mistakenly drove on the operating table and undergo surgery within the hour (they made an incision in the groin, puncture an artery, through which is slipped a tube in her heart). The study was soon interrupted and she was taken back to my room
Not that half
For the third time, doctors hospital of Rhode island conducted an operation on the wrong side of patient's head. 82-year-old woman needed surgery to stop bleeding in the skull. The neurosurgeon started the surgery by drilling the right side of the head of the patient... although bleeding occurred in the left half
Cut, but not
The surgeon accidentally removed the wrong leg of 52-year-old Willie king in 1995. Made some mistakes, which resulted in the patient prepared for amputation of the wrong leg. A team of surgeon mid-procedure, realized that they started the amputation of the wrong leg, but it was too late and they had to amputate the leg
Return the kidney in place
In Minnesota, the patient hospital Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital removed a healthy kidney. Doctors accidentally took out a healthy kidney instead of the one where you had a cancerous tumor and removed it, even after checking
I feel
A man from West Virginia named Sherman sizemore was admitted to the General hospital Role in Beckley in 2006. He needed surgery to determine the cause of abdominal pain. Before the surgery he did wrong anesthesia, causing Sherman sizemore was in a state where he was awake and could feel the pain and discomfort of surgery, but could not move and tell the doctors that he feels it. This case brought the 73-year-old Minister of the Baptist Church to suicide
Comedian was not amused
The former party Saturday Night Live (an evening music and Comedy show on the American channel) comedian named Dana Carvey, had to have two operations for coronary artery bypass surgery. During the first operation, surgeons mistakenly bypassed the wrong artery, and they urgently had to perform a second operation to save the life of a 45-year-old comedian. The essence of the operation is to create detours blood supply to the heart muscle, bypassing diseased arteries.
Source: 4tololo.ru
