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Wrong kidney removed from patient with kidney cancer
Quality Improvement Monitor, March 21, 2008
A surgical team at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park in Minneapolis removed the wrong kidney from a patient with kidney cancer last week, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
The mistake occurred weeks prior to the surgery surgery, when the kidney on the wrong side was identified on the patient's medical charts as cancerous, the paper said. The patient now only has a cancerous kidney since the healthy one was removed.
"We feel just profoundly responsible for this," said Samuel Carlson, MD, chief medical officer for Park Nicollet Health Services, which owns Methodist Hospital, told the Tribune.
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