Hospital uses wrong angiogram films during heart bypass
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, July 4, 2007
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A Modesto, CA, hospital inadvertantly referred to the incorrect angiogram films during a patient's bypass surgery. The bypass was successful, although the patient later sued Memorial Medical Center and the surgeon involved, according to the Modesto Bee.
The hospital paid a $140,000 settlement to the patient, according to the article. The family and surgeon, Lit Fung, have not settled. The patient claims that Fung discovered the error during the surgery but continued with the procedure, which jeopardized her health.
The hospital and surgeon manintained that the patient's heart was remarkably similar to the heart in the films and thus, the surgery as performed did not jeapordize her health.
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