5 DOCTORS WHO MADE HORRIBLE MISTAKES

 Medicine is a very critical practice. It deals directly with the lives of people and so should be delicately handled. Doctors are also advised to be professionals before trying out things with human lives. So many horrible mistakes have been made by doctors while trying to save lives that actually almost destroyed it. Here is a list of five of them;

●WILLIE KING’S WRONG LEG:

In the University Community Hospital in Tampa, a 52 year old man Willie King was scheduled for an amputation surgery. During the surgery, the surgeon’s team realized that they were operating on the wrong leg. However, it was already too late to reverse the procedure, and the leg had to be amputated. The surgeon was fined $10,000 and his license suspended for 6 months. The hospital also paid another $900,000 to Willie King and the surgeon paid an additional $250,000. Of course, all of this cannot buy a new leg, but oh, well.

●SHERMAN SIZEMORE’S CONSCIOUS SURGERY:

In 2006, at Raleigh General Hospital, Sherman was booked for exploratory surgery to determine the cause of his abdominal pain. He ended up joining in the exploring of his own body, when he experienced anesthetic awareness ( a condition where a patient is able to feel everything during a surgery, but unable to communicate or even move)*shudders*. The doctor in charge of the anesthetics had apparently failed to give him the general anesthetics required to make him unconscious for the duration of the surgery. At 73, Sherman ended up committing suicide as the trauma he had felt during the surgery was too much for him to handle.

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●DONALD CHURCH’S RETRACTOR:

In the year 2000, at the University Of Washington Medical Center, a 13-inch retractor was forgotten in the abdomen of Donald Church during a surgery to remove an abdominal tumor from his body. Fortunately for Donald, the retractor was removed and he suffered no long-term consequence. The hospital

●THE WRONG KIDNEY:

A patient (details withheld for privacy sake) had a cancerous tumor in one kidney and went to the Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital to have it removed. When the pathologist examined the kidney and found out that there was nothing wrong with it, they realized that the doctors ended up removing the healthy Kidney and leaving the cancerous one.

●THE WRONG PATIENT:

A 67 year old woman Joan Morris was admitted to the hospital for cerebral angiography. After the procedure she underwent an invasive cardiac electro physiology study which she was not supposed to. After the procedure, instead of returning to her bed, she was transferred to another floor. She should have been discharged the next day, but due to the mix up, she was taken in for an open heart procedure. After almost an hour of surgery, a call came into the surgery room from a doctor from another department, asking the surgeon what he was doing with his patient as she had nothing wrong with her heart. Surgery was aborted and she was returned in a stable condition, thankfully.

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