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What do you do when you've experienced a wrong-site, wrong-patient or wrong-procedure surgical error?

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What do you do when you've experienced a wrong-site, wrong-patient or wrong-procedure surgical error?

• Florida: Wrong-site, Wrong-patient, Wrong-procedure or "never-events".
• New England Journal of Medicine: A pre-surgical checklist includes the time-out.
• Minnesota Patient Safety Reports - Preventable Errors
• PAMELA G. ROCK vs. WARHANK, BLUE GRASS FAMILY, et. al. - Medical Malpractice Statute of Limitations

Wrong-Site Surgery - A medical student's perspective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktJRKA4Uag

This video about Wrong-Site Surgery and Antibiotics by a United State's medical student has what appears at first to be a good message with valuable information, but then quickly deteriorates with his pronouncement these mistakes are no one's fault. Is he kidding? The patient isn't in charge of surgery. This medical student offers by way of explanation that the doctor may just be overworked and therefore is excused from protecting the patient's health. So what if he's overworked? If the wage earner whose job it is to manufacture car brakes is overworked and does a bad job, the doctor who crashes his car due to brake failure will certainly blame the worker. Why then is it alright to excuse the doctor and surgical staff for allowing themselves to become overworked to the point where it affects their performance?

This video will show you what medical students are taught about legal responsibility and how they are excused from the safeguards that protect consumers. It's a good discussion that should put a healthy amount of skepticicm in your before entering the surgical suite.

Be aware of your rights, protect yourself and be diligent to protect your right to seek compensation from those whose would excuse their own negligent conduct.

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