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Wrong-Site Surgeries Happen as Many as 40 Times a Day Despite Efforts to Reduce Surgical Errors

The Washington Post published a short list of “high-profile examples of wrong-site surgery” on June 20, 2011. Casting back to 2006, the newspaper found at least one egregious surgical error for each year, including removal of the healthy testicle from a cancer patient and three operations in a 2-month period at a single hospital in…

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