Inexplicable medical mistakes like this are called “never events,” and they aren’t quite as rare as their name suggests.

Grave errors like this, called never events, aren’t as rare as they might seem.

  • BigDanishGuyEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I mean I mistook a spleen for a small kidney at an anatomy exam many years ago. In my defense may have been absent the day we did spleens and the preparation method made everything a grayish yellow brown color.

    I may not have passed my first year anatomy exam, like the surgeon. But I still think that I could tell a large red brownish liver, in the front of a persons right side abdomen, from a kidney shaped organ a fifth the size of a liver, residing in the extreme left of the person’s abdominal cavity.

  • mrfriki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    For some reason that title made me think I was in the Dadjokes sub and I was expecting to read some dad jokes inside.

  • paysrenttobirdsEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The only surgery I’ve had there were two surgeons in the room-- they were a team and worked together as a rule. I wish every procedure could have even a casual zoom surgical partner as a check. Think of the surgeon who was tying knots wrong his whole career – would have been a single mistake and then corrected.