Two Patients Have Surgical Slip-up

Two patients are recovering after South Korean doctors mistakenly removed part of the stomach of a patient that was supposed to have thyroid surgery, while removing the thyroid gland of another scheduled for stomach surgery.

The surgical mix-up took place at Konyang University Hospital in the city of Taejon, which is located about 150 km south of Seoul.

The Medical staff at the hospital only found out about the mix-up when they were filing paperwork on the two women. Both the women involved were in their sixties and were in the hospital for surgery the same day.

Once they realised the mistake, the doctors later performed the correct surgical procedures on both women and re-attached the part of the stomach they had removed from the patient with the thyroid problem.

Reminds us of a funny comic we read some time ago.

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