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Operating on the wrong body part – what can be done to prevent it?

By Adam Taylor, Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University

A 70-year-old man from Alabama recently died at a hospital in Florida when a surgeon mistakenly removed his liver instead of his spleen.

This type of medical error is known as a “never event” because it should never have happened. Unfortunately, they happen all too often.

Never events range from the wrong organ or side…

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