Sentence examples for the wrong limb from inspiring English sources

Amputated the wrong limb?

In its findings, the committee concluded that this error was "no different in substance or egregiousness to operating on the wrong limb".

They admonished the department for bringing some charges, but they also said that Dr. Arbit's botched spinal surgery was akin to operating on the wrong limb, and added that he should have known better since he had been sanctioned before.

He was found to have operated on the wrong disks of the patient's spine, which the hearing committee concluded was "no different in substance or egregiousness to operating on the wrong limb," according to state records.

It is a more subtle kind of error than operating on the wrong limb; indeed, this sort of mistake is not always recognized, and yet the consequences can be grave.

But new Medicare rules that block reimbursement when hospitals make some medical errors such as amputating the wrong limb or making a mistake that leads to a post-surgical infection should spur hospitals to clean up their act, he believes.

Now he amputates the wrong limbs, forgets to use anaesthetic, robs the graveyard for body parts, performs hair transplants with a pizza cutter, and gets guided through heart bypass surgery by his patient's eight-year-old daughter.

Spurred by a 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academies, titled "To Err Is Human," which estimated that as many as 98,000 patients die annually from preventable medical errors, and by more recent bad publicity from mistakes like amputations of the wrong limbs, many health care providers are redoubling their efforts to improve patient safety.

Ms. Pisano, of the health insurance group, said Medicare and private insurers were already using a "never list" of things they will not pay for, like leaving a sponge or instrument inside a patient, or operating on the wrong organ or wrong limb.

For example, wrong limb surgery is an event that is only likely to occur in hospital, whereas the lack of adrenaline (or equivalent) in the practice or during a home visit in this preliminary list is a general practice-based event.

During the strike, there were no reports of never events [catastrophic events that should never happen like operating on the wrong limb], or trusts asking doctors to come back to work.