Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Hospital Fined For Third Instance of Doctors Operating on Wrong Side of Patient's Head


PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island Hospital was fined $50,000 and reprimanded by the state Department of Health Monday after its third instance this year of a doctor performing brain surgery in the wrong side of a patient's head.
"We are extremely concerned about this continuing pattern," Director of Health David R. Gifford said in a written statement. "While the hospital has made improvements in the operating room, they have not extended these changes to the rest of the hospital." Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Sports Authority