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welcome back, an alarming new study in from johns hopkins university finds more than 4,000 medical errors occurring in the operating room each year. things like surgeons sewing up a medical instrument inside of them. operating on the wrong patient. how can you make sure you don t fall victim to one of these mistakes. joining us is professor at william beaumont school of medicine. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. there are 4,000 manages stakes surgical mistakes a year. are we really talking about a medical instrument being left inside someone or the wrong body part being operated on or are those just sort of one in a million? well, unfortunately as a surgeon, i have heard stories about this happening even in hospitals that i have worked at in the past. this is real. people do unfortunately operate on the wrong body