Date : Thursday, August 21, 2008
Time : 3:29:00 am
Title :

Oops! We removed breast of wrong patient!
Mistaking her for a cancer patient, Japanese hospital removed entire left breast of healthy woman. -

Wed, Aug 20, 2008
Yomiuri Shimbun, ANN
The Yomiuri Shimbun

OKAYAMA--The Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital in Okayama removed the entire left breast of a healthy woman in her 40s last year after confusing the identification number of her test sample with that of a cancer patient, the hospital revealed Tuesday.

The woman has rejected the hospital's apology, and her lawyers are negotiating with the facility's lawyers.

According to the hospital, the woman was diagnosed as possibly having breast cancer based on chest X-rays in July 2007.

During tissue testing in mid-August 2007, a clinical technologist at the hospital mistakenly wrote down the identification number of a breast cancer patient on the woman's sample slide, the hospital said.

After the woman's left breast was removed in mid-September 2007, tissue testing on the removed section revealed she was not suffering from the disease.

(Aug. 20, 2008)

Source: Asiaone.com http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20080820-83270.html


what the hell. i think the woman must be so sad, sad to the core. heeheehee, i promised myself a five minute computer break from studying, it's ten minutes already!! i'll just have to be awake for two more hours, and i can start preparing for school! shall i do geography for a change? or continue with chemistry??

BYEBYEE!! see y'all fellow schoolmates in a few.