http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/12/surgeon-operates-on-wrong-patient.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/12/surgeon-operates-on-wrong-patient.html#comment-69319 Anonymous Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/12/a-surgeon-operates-on-the-wrong-patient.html#comment-69319 i once had 2 patients with the same name going for the same procedure on the same day... one case was cancelled. the other came into the OR just as I was telling my attending that so and so's case was cancelled..... both were young female patients for an OB procedure... my attending was not very happy. i once had 2 patients with the same name going for the same procedure on the same day… one case was cancelled. the other came into the OR just as I was telling my attending that so and so’s case was cancelled….. both were young female patients for an OB procedure… my attending was not very happy.

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