Posted by Editor | Posted in Personal Injury News
Rhode Island Hospital was recently fined $50,000 by the State Department of Health and reprimanded for reports that a doctor at the hospital operated on the wrong side of a patient’s brain during a brain surgery procedure.
The reason for the fine? It’s the THIRD time this year that this mistake has happened at this hospital. Remarkably, all three wrong-side brain operations were performed by different doctors. At this point, the latest patient to be mistakenly operated upon is okay, as was the first victim of the botched operation.
However, the second patient tragically died as a result of the surgery in August of this year. That prompted an investigation into the hospital procedures, which apparently did not correct the problem.
Let’s hope the doctors at Rhode Island Hospital have learned their lesson and we won’t have to read in the coming months of a fourth flipped surgery victim. These types of actions often lead to medical malpractice lawsuits.
