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How Did a Surgeon in Florida Mistake a Man’s Liver for his Spleen? (nymag.com)
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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] 1 points 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.