RI Hospital in Hot Water After 5 Wrong Surgeries in 2 Years
Submitted by DeepDiveAdmin on Nov 3, 2009
A Rhode Island hospital has been fined $150,000 after allegedly performing its fifth wrong site surgery since 2007. The Associated Press reports:
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Not $150,000. That will surely teach them to stop making these mistakes.
Seriously, with all the checks and balances that should be done prior to every procedure, how is this possible?