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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.