The Wrong Leg: The Surgical Mistake That Shocked America

Описание: In February 1995, Willie King went into a Tampa hospital to have a leg amputated. He woke up to find the surgeon had taken the wrong one.

Investigators found it was not one careless moment but a chain of errors before the surgery began. This is what happened, what Willie King said about it, what regulators found at the hospital, and the rule that operating rooms follow today.

CHAPTERS
0:00 The recovery room
0:33 Tampa, 1995
1:15 The chain of errors
2:03 The discovery
2:49 In his own words
3:43 The surgeon and the board
4:42 The chalkboard
6:03 The rule that followed
7:09 Does it work?

SOURCES
Tampa Bay Times, March 10, 1995: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995...
Tampa Bay Times, April 8, 1995: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995...
Tampa Bay Times, April 14, 1995: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995...
Tampa Bay Times, April 19, 1995: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1995...
Deseret News, Dec. 3, 1995: https://www.deseret.com/1995/12/3/192...
ABC News, Medical Errors, Past and Present: https://abcnews.com/Health/story?id=3...
Relias Media: https://www.clinician.com/articles/39...
AHRQ Patient Safety Network: https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/mark-my...
AHRQ Patient Safety Network, 2015: https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/two-wro...

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