A horribly regrettable mix-up
Annie Robinson, 58, needed an operation to remove the parathyroid glands in the front of her neck. Virginia Edmondson, 54, needed cartilage removed from the vertebrae at the back of her neck. On the same morning at Philadelphia's Graduate Hospital, doctors somehow mixed up the two women and started performing the vertebrae operation on the parathyroid patient and vice versa.
How could such a thing have happened? The hospital is still investigating the incident, and saying little. But its spokesman did report that both doctors spotted the error in mid-operation...
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