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Operating On the Wrong Person Or Body Part

It has happened before and is likely to happen again. The unthinkable, doctors or surgeons operating on the wrong person or wrong body part.

In the Media by Oscar Brooks

How A Surgeon's Wii Can Save Your Life

We have often wondered what certain professionals do in their spare time and now we know about surgeons. To encourage them to perform well in the operating theatre, they play with their Wii's before scrubbing up

In the Media by Michelle Duffy - 4 comments

Surgeon Leaves Patient On Operating Table To Fist Fight Another Surgeon

Surgeon's get into an argument and leave patient on bed to have physical fight in a different room...

In the Media by malan - 10 comments

Surgeons' Operating Techniques Improved by Video Games

Before that all important surgery you might like to find out if your surgeon likes a bit of X-Box or Playstation.

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Surgeons Lengthen Wrong Leg of Boy

A 5-year-old Chinese boy went in for surgery to correct a limp and came out of the operation with an even more pronounced limp.

In the Media by geozone - 3 comments

8-Year-Old Boy's Arm Reattached After Shark Attack

PENSACOLA, Fla. – An 8-year-old boy was in critical condition today after a team of surgeons worked through the night reattaching the arm he lost in a shark attack. Three surgeons and a large surgical support team worked 12 hours in shifts to reatt..

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Radical Nerve Operation Gives Hope To Paraplegics

BERLIN (dpa) - When Angelo Colombo, a painter and amateur boxer, fell off a roof and broke his spine in 1995, doctors told him he would never walk again. Then Colombo came into contact with Italian neurosurgeon Giorgio Brunelli, whose radical method...

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Surgeon condemns IT cable thefts

A senior surgeon criticises the theft of cables which affected computer systems in three hospitals.

Vascular surgeon would stay on P.E.I. with help

P.E.I.'s only vascular surgeon, scheduled to quit surgical practice on the Island at the end of this month, says he would stay if the province recruits a second vascular surgeon.

Virtual patient under the knife

How a giant touchscreen is teaching surgeons

Mid-career surgeons 'are safest'

Surgeons aged 35-50 are safer than younger and older colleagues, claim French researchers.

P.E.I. losing only vascular surgeon