A surgeon suspended following a medical error
A surgeon was suspended for five months after removing a healthy kidney by mistake to a patient, operated in a private clinic in Strasbourg.
The doctor, officiating at the clinic Sainte-Anne, was suspended Wednesday under an order made by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency (LRA), which held that the practitioner exposed his patients "a danger to serious. "
Medical error
On May 13, the surgeon has done "a nephrectomy for a tumor. There was an error side leading to the removal of the kidney healthy, "said the LRA, which has been advised of the incident the same day.
The patient, a septuagenarian, has a psychological support, the LRA said, regretting that "terrible mistake". The surgeon had been suspended "as a precautionary measure" by the clinic from the description of his act.
The doctor acknowledges its responsibility. He removed the right kidney by mistake to his patient because of "bad information in the record," he said.
second error
This type of error is "exceptional," said the president of the Association of the Medical Association, Elizabeth Kruczek. The surgeon must spend the next two months before the Disciplinary Board, which could impose sanctions up to expulsion.
The surgeon had already appeared in March 2011 that House, for a medical error during an operation that killed a young man of 18 at a clinic in Reims in 2006.
Upon arrival at the clinic in Strasbourg in early 2010, his colleagues had issued a unanimous opinion was unfavorable to the institution because of this case.
The doctor, officiating at the clinic Sainte-Anne, was suspended Wednesday under an order made by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency (LRA), which held that the practitioner exposed his patients "a danger to serious. "
Medical error
On May 13, the surgeon has done "a nephrectomy for a tumor. There was an error side leading to the removal of the kidney healthy, "said the LRA, which has been advised of the incident the same day.
The patient, a septuagenarian, has a psychological support, the LRA said, regretting that "terrible mistake". The surgeon had been suspended "as a precautionary measure" by the clinic from the description of his act.
The doctor acknowledges its responsibility. He removed the right kidney by mistake to his patient because of "bad information in the record," he said.
second error
This type of error is "exceptional," said the president of the Association of the Medical Association, Elizabeth Kruczek. The surgeon must spend the next two months before the Disciplinary Board, which could impose sanctions up to expulsion.
The surgeon had already appeared in March 2011 that House, for a medical error during an operation that killed a young man of 18 at a clinic in Reims in 2006.
Upon arrival at the clinic in Strasbourg in early 2010, his colleagues had issued a unanimous opinion was unfavorable to the institution because of this case.
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