Niamh Harris – A Florida surgeon has been find $3,000 after he cut out a woman’s healthy kidney, without her consent, after mistaking it for a tumor.
He has also been ordered to undergo extra training on preoperative patient evaluation as he had not read the patients medical records properly before the surgery took place.
A complaint from the Florida Health Department said the doctor’s cancer diagnosis was not related to the reason his patient was having surgery so the mistaken tumor should not have been removed anyway. Continue reading