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Originally Posted by FrankRN
Something like this JUST HAPPENED in a Boston teaching hospital, though it did not involve a penis. The surgeon operated on the wrong body part. He ignored protocol and policy which would have caught the error before it happened.
The hospitals spin: He was so caught up in how to approach a difficult procedure that he failed to catch the error in time.
I'd say he was not caught up enough in the procedure. Such errors occur all the time in the USA and have absolutely nothing to do with socialized medicine.
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Many of these happen in VA hospitals. Which are basically an experiment of socialised medicine.