Doctors Amputate Wrong Leg Of Elderly Patient, Blames Human Error
DOCTORS AMPUTATE WRONG LEG – Much like the intro scene from Scary Movie 4, doctors amputated the wrong leg of an 82-year-old patient.
Having an operation that requires amputation is not an easy feat. Losing a limb in itself is hard enough for a patient. However, losing the wrong leg and having to still amputate the other is even worse.
According to an article from Ladbibile, the doctors from the Freistadt Clinic in Australia made a “tragic mistake”. In a statement, the hospital said the elderly patient had his left right leg removed instead of his left.
Unfortunately, the patient still needs to have his left leg removed from his mid-thigh. As per the article, the hospital said:
We are deeply shocked that on Tuesday, May 18, despite quality assurance standards, the wrong leg of an 82-year old man … was amputated…
Unfortunately the mistake, in which the right leg was removed instead of the left, occurred as a result of a sequence of unfortunate circumstances.
As a response to their mistake, the hospital explained that the operation mas “shortly planned”. Furthermore, the hospital offered the patient “psychological assistance”.
Sadly, even the patient didn’t realize the mistake due to his illness. Moreover, reports said that he was also inarticulate.
Following the incident, the Freistadt Clinic filed a complaint with the public prosecutor’s office. Meanwhile, Norbert Fritsch, the main clinic’s Medical Director said:
We have to find out how this failure, this mistake could happen. I would like to apologise publicly here
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