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horror story that makes headlines: the wrong leg amputated, a child denied a transplant.
Some have taken on the big blunders — errors of misdosed medication and operations on the wrong leg.
Neither mistake was on the scale, with, say, amputating the wrong leg or causing two planes to collide.
"So what if Tobey Maguire doctored the wrong leg when he had Seabiscuit out walking in the grass?
Doctors have amputated the wrong leg, killed patients with overdoses of medications and committed other serious errors for centuries.
But Saundra Pope, a Queens Council candidate, recalled a doctor "who removed the wrong leg from a patient, and he is an experienced person".
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Then one stumbles upon an occasional systemic failure so grievous, such as the amputation of a patient's wrong leg, that it nearly defies credibility, and reminds us that we are still vulnerable to medical exploitation and misconduct.
At least 150 times since 1996, surgeons in hospitals in this country have operated on the wrong arm, leg, eye, kidney or other body part, or even on the wrong patient.
"But the problem was with hurdles six and seven and she took hurdle eight on her wrong leg.
The group said the most common mistake was operating on the wrong foot or leg.
The supermarket outing where I began to follow the wrong pair of legs.
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