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    U.S. Media Ranks 9 Major Medical Accidents in the U.S. in the Last 15 Years

    • Last Update: 2020-07-07
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    21, the U.Smedia ranked the U.Sin the past 15 years, the united States nine major medical accidentsIn February 1995, a Surgeon in Florida
    removed ahealthyleg from 52-year-old Willie during an amputation operationIn July 2006, an 86-year-old patient fell into a coma due to problems with the left side of the brain, but the surgeon who perform
    ed the operation opened the right side of the patient's brainRealizing that there had been a major mistake, the doctor immediately operated on the left side of the brain, but it was too lateTwo weeks after the operation, the patient diedIn July, 47-year-old Benjamin underwent surgery at THE WEST LOS ANGELEs VA Medical Center for a lesions in his left testicle, which doctors mistakenly removedIn June 2006, a medical accident occurred at Milford Regional Medical Center in Massachusetts: an 84-year-old woman was going to remove the diseased gallbladder, but surgeons removed her right kidneyDue to the poor condition of many of the patients' organs, it was not until other doctors performed a routine postoperative check-up that they discovered that they had been mistakenly removedIn February 2003, during an operation at duke university affiliatedHospital in Durham, North Carolina, , doctors mistakenly transplanted a mismatched heart and lung into Sandira, who was suffering from heart disease, whose blood type was O-type but the transplanted organ came from a type A donor.
    In order to make up for the mistake, the hospital put forward a second program, the transplant organ was removed again, transplanted with its blood type matching the heart and lung organs, but the operation failed, Sandira died soon In January 2006
    , 73-year-old Szemo was sent to a hospital in The city of Beckle for surgery, but during the procedure he experienced a phenomenon called anaesthetic awareness, in which patients who were given general anaesthetic still felt pain, stress or discomfort during the operation According to Szemo's family, Szemo underwent surgery "in agony" and committed suicide shortly after the operation In June 2000, 49-year-old Donald, who was treated at the University of Washington Medical Center
    in Seattle for treatment a tumor in his abdomen, left a tractor in his stomach after the operation In 2004, Nancy, of Cormac, New York, became pregnant after undergoing in vitro fertilization at a New York hospital, but the couple were surprised by a change in the skin tone of the baby DNA tests revealed that doctors at the New York Center for Reproductive Medicine insemined Nancy's eggs to other men's sperm Daly Ethan, 35, of Long Island, New York, of miscutting her breasts, recently accused CBLPath Medical Laboratory of failing to have her breasts removed In 2006, Essen's medical examination found out she had breast cancer, And CBLPath hospital doctors advised her to remove her double breast, and Essen sought a specialist check-up, but the doctor, judging by her previous case, reiterated her cancer diagnosis, and Essen had a removal But it turned out that Essen was not suffering from cancer (Yang)
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