Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is again on the hot heat with another doc needing lefty-righty-rehabilitation. Is it an oxymoron when a hospital that markets itself as a teaching institution has surgeons on staff who don’t know left from right? They won’t say who nor have they identified the patient although they did say the patient “was expected to have short-term discomfort, but does not have permanent organ damage or life-threatening problems.”

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Again We Discuss Wrong-Site or Wrong-Side Surgeries


Posted on Feb 25, 2010

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is again on the hot heat with another doc needing lefty-righty-rehabilitation. Is it an oxymoron when a hospital that markets itself as a teaching institution has surgeons on staff who don’t know left from right? They won’t say who nor have they identified the patient although they did say the patient “was expected to have short-term discomfort, but does not have permanent organ damage or life-threatening problems.”

“Oops, sorry mate we did a little lefty-righty thingy that you won’t like.”

 Read more on the Lombardi Law Firm blog, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Doc Heading to Lefty-Right K-Grade Rehab

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