Operation on the wrong side. They messed up and did this eye and then did this eye. To tests that cause bald spots. Hair loss. I had a perfect ring around my head. And metal deadly close to a magnet. Were counting down my list of 25 shocking medical mistakes. Mistakes are happening every day in every hospital in the country that were just not catching. Its the second or third leading cause of death in this country. And for the most part were silent on it. What you can do to not become a victim. Im elizabeth cohen. Ill show you how to become an empowered patient. With the help of worldrenowned Patient Safety expert dr. Peter pronovost, American Cancer Society chief medical officer dr. Otis brawley. Acclaimed fiction author dr. Abraham verghese, and more. Stay tuned. This hour could save your life. At number 25, baby security breach. The woman in this surveillance video, jennifer latham, tells her family shes expecting a baby when really she isnt. So she decides to steal one. Take a look
at number 8, biopsy blunder. something unusual turns up in 35-year-old derry eason s breast. is it cancer? doctors do a biopsy. her diagnosis, positive. invasive lobular carcinoma. this single mom has breast cancer. she gets a second opinion. two more experts look at her lab work and agree. derry decides she has to be aggressive to save her life. she has surgery to remove both her breasts. and then weeks later a bombshell admission by her doctors. they told me basically you didn t have cancer and you never did. what makes doctors think she s sick? that biopsy showing she has cancer actually belongs to someone else. a health department investigation says a lab technician is most likely
a survey say tube mix-ups happen at their hospitals. so the lesson here is when you have tubes in you ask the staff to trace the tubes back to the point of origin so the right medicine goes to the right place. at number 8, biopsy blunder. something unusual turns up in 35-year-old derry eason s breast. is it cancer? doctors do a biopsy. her diagnosis, positive. invasive lobular carcinoma. this single mom has breast cancer. she gets a second opinion. two more experts look at her lab work and agree. derry decides she has to be aggressive to save her life. she has surgery to remove both her breasts. and then weeks later a bombshell admission by her doctors. they told me basically you didn t have cancer and you never did.
i ve never got she had to go through it alone. and i wasn t there. is it easy to confuse tubes? we should be very cautious. unfortunately, people get rushed. people cut corners. and when that happens tragic things can happen. 16% of doctors and nurses in a survey says tube mix-ups happen at their hospitals. so the lesson here is when you have tubes in you ask the staff to trace the tubes back to the point of origin so the right medicine goes to the right place. at number 8, biopsy blunder. something unusual turns up in 35-year-old derry eason s breast. is it cancer? doctors do a biopsy. her diagnosis, positive. invasive lobular carcinoma. this single mom has breast cancer.
rushed. people cut corners. and when that happens tragic things can happen. 16% of doctors and nurses in a survey says tube mix-ups happen at their hospitals. so the lesson here is when you have tubes in you ask the staff to trace the tubes back to the point of origin so the right medicine goes to the right place. at number 8, biopsy blunder. something unusual turns up in 35-year-old derry eason s breast. is it cancer? doctors do a biopsy. her diagnosis, positive. invasive lobular carcinoma. this single mom has breast cancer. she gets a second opinion. two more experts look at her lab work and agree. derry decides she has to be aggressive to save her life. she has surgery to remove both