Monday, December 8, 2014

Doctor Removes Wrong Kidney: A Reminder About Wrong-Site Surgeries

The human body typically bears only two kidneys, but a California surgeon has been placed on probation for removing the wrong one from a federal inmate. In 2012, Dr. Charles Coonan Streit, a surgeon at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California, erroneously removed a healthy kidney from

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