Here’s
a
worrying article which I found via one of the Facebook lab-related groups I
follow
“A surgeon at Saint Vincent Hospital
unnecessarily removed a patient’s kidney because he relied on the test results
of another patient with the same name, according to public health inspectors
who found serious safety lapses at the hospital”
…
“But it turned out the scan was for another
patient with the same name. The surgeon apparently failed to use a second piece
of identifying information, such as a birth date, to connect the CT scan to the
correct patient, the report indicated. The medical record for the patient who
had the surgery did not contain a CT scan, the report said”
Perhaps
I’m being harsh, but isn’t it just standard procedure to have three points of
identification (at least). Are there
*really* hospitals that just go with
a name and hope for the best?
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