Woman Wakes up From Surgery to Find She Had Procedure on Wrong Part of Body
On 5/12/21 at 12:41 PM EDT
A South Carolina woman says she woke up from surgery to find that her doctor had operated on the wrong part of her body.
Natalie Avilez from Franklin County told the WLTX television station on Tuesday that the surgeon had carried out the procedure on the wrong side and wrong part of her spine.
After the surgery, Avilez said the surgeon came to speak to her in the recovery room and admitted to his mistake.
Read more He started apologizing, saying that he made a mistake and he went in on the wrong side, Avilez told WLTX.
Entirely preventable : Kiwis hospitalised because of sunburn, study finds
12 May, 2021 03:00 PM
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Excessive exposure to UV radiation will burn the skin and can lead to skin cancer.
More than 160 Kiwis and Aussies have been so badly sunburnt they were admitted to burns units and almost one in five of those people needed surgery.
Australian researchers scoured the Burns Registry of Australia and New Zealand to determine how many patients had been admitted for sunburn in the 10 years between 2010 and 2019.
Their findings were today published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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One of the authors, Dr Lincoln Tracy, research fellow with Monash University, told the Herald that, while it was a small percentage of the total burns cases treated, the figure was alarming given Australia and New Zealand have the highest incidence of melanoma worldwide at about 50 cases per 100,000 person-years.
In Uganda, a village-based health facility is helping vulnerable communities with affordable complex surgeries. The Surgical Centre uses high-speed internet to bring medical professionals into village surgical theaters.
Man sues hospital after he says he was allowed to slip from operating table during procedure
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Robert Powell says he woke up with two black eyes, a split lip and a bruised jaw.
It is not the way any patient wants to come to after surgery but Powell says that was his predicament after an operation to repair a hernia.
The north Houston man says in August of last year his injuries came as the result of being allowed to slip from the operating table not once but twice during the procedure. Nearly, a year later Powell said he’s still suffering from the effects of the falls.