December 2019 Archives

Many people are quite shocked to hear stories about botched surgeries. While surgeries are usually safe and successful, mistakes do sometimes occur, either due to surgeon error or miscommunication. Wrong-site surgery is a term for a surgery that occurs in the wrong part of the body. Wrong-site surgeries are most often a case of a surgery occurring on the wrong side of the body — on the wrong knee or the wrong breast, for example. Very rarely, a patient may be subjected to a surgery that they did not require because of mistaken identity.