Although many surgical safety experts refer to wrong-site surgeries as "never events" because they should never happen, wrong-site surgeries continue to injure patients all too often.
Study: Wrong-site surgeries should be prevented
Study: Surgery Error More Frequent Than Commonly Perceived
For people needing further confirmation that doctors are not infallible and that hospital record-keeping and procedures are not routinely accurate, an exhaustive study of medical errors committed during surgery that was recently published in the Archives of Surgery provides ample proof.
