working with two specimens at the same time. by mistake the worker takes another woman s tissue and puts it inside a container labeled with darrie s identification. something should have been done to tell me that there wasn t anything wrong with me before i had a radical double mastectomy. you make the diagnosis with a biopsy, and for sure there could be a domino or butterfly effect that occurs from having a mistake in that initial biopsy where everybody starts to make a decision based on that initial biopsy or error. 1 out of 1,000 lab specimens is mislabeled. if your surgeon, radiologist, and pathologists don t all agree on your biopsy results, ask if you should repeat the test or get another opinion. at number 7, having the wrong baby. caroline and shawn savage want a baby after four miscarriages. they turn to a fertility lab for help. the couple thinks their embryos
empowered patient. with the help of world-renowned patient safety expert dr. peter pronovost, american cancer society chief medical officer dr. otis brawly. 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 she s expecting a baby when really she isn t. so she decides to steal one. take a look as she changes into nursing scrubs, enters a baby s room, comes out with a bag under her arm. a baby is in that bag. the impostor nurse actually gets off the premises with the child, despite an alarm on the baby. the alarm went off as it was supposed to. the woman just managed to get out the door. the baby is gone, missing,
logan and then gives him up to his real parents. can you say hello to everybody? say hi? hi? to think that a woman carried someone else s baby, albeit by accident, to term and then had to hand that child over to that couple, not achieving her own pregnancy, first of all, she s an amazing woman. and secondly, it s a tragedy. happily, sean and caroline recently had twins, isabella and reagan, with the help of a surrogate. mistakes like this are exceedingly rare, but they do happen. nine months in the wrong mom is no way to have a baby. so if you re getting fertility treatment, make sure the clinic is accredited by the college of american pathologists. at number 6, operating on the wrong body part. jesse matlock has a wandering right eye. the 3-year-old needs surgery to have it fixed. he goes in for the operation, and the surgeon cuts into the left eye instead of the right.
three jane smiths on a common hospital floor. before every procedure in the hospital make sure the staff checks your entire name, your date of birth, and the bar code on your wrist band. at number 22, pharmacy faux pas. mareena silva is six weeks pregnant. she picks up a prescription for antibiotics at the pharmacy. she takes the medicine. and then sees the label is wrong. i came back and i looked at the bottle, and it wasn t my name. the pharmacy has given mareena a prescription meant for another woman who has the same last name and a similar first name. the medicine isn t an antibiotic. it s actually methotrexate, a drug that has the potential to terminate pregnancies. you never, ever want to give a drug like that to a pregnant patient. this is my first child. so it s really difficult to deal
for almost 2 1/2 hours. until a police officer spots the getaway car and pulls the baby snatcher over. that s a newborn that you have back there. listen as jennifer lies to the officer, telling him the baby in the car is hers. you gave birth? yes. today? no. yesterday. yesterday? this cop isn t buying any of it. jennifer latham is arrested, and the baby is returned safely back to mom and dad by ambulance. what kind of person would want to steal a baby? most people who steal babies actually want that baby for themselves. and hospitals are a great place to get babies. since 1983, 132 babies have been abducted from u.s. health care facilities. make sure your eyes or a real nurse s eyes are on your baby at all times in the hospital. because every so often a baby snatcher is eyeing them too. at number 24, fake doctors.