{"id":1604,"date":"2007-08-28T15:09:03","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/surgeon_operates_on_wrong_side\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:12:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:12:36","slug":"surgeon-operates-on-wrong-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/surgeon-operates-on-wrong-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon Operates on Wrong Side of Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press has reported that an 86-year-old Providence Rhode Island  man  died three weeks after a neurosurgeon operated on the wrong side of his head. The patient, whose name wasn&#8217;t released, died Saturday, and the state medical examiner was determining the cause of death.The man underwent emergency surgery at Rhode Island Hospital on July 30 to treat bleeding in his brain A nurse practitioner for Dr. Frederick Harrington didn&#8217;t record which side of the man&#8217;s brain required surgery. When another nurse pointed out the missing information, Harrington allegedly relied on his memory without consulting a CT chart and began operating on the wrong side. Upon realizing the error during the surgery, the surgeon operated on the correct side.<br \/>\nThe hospital has suspended Harrington&#8217;s surgical privileges, and he has agreed to stop performing surgery until an evaluation is complete. The incident marked the third wrong-side surgery error in the hospital&#8217;s neurosurgery unit in six years. Harrington also operated on the wrong side of a patient&#8217;s head during a surgery at Roger Williams Medical Center in September.<br \/>\nAfter reviewing that incident, the state Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline decided there were mitigating circumstances and opted to create a remediation plan for Harrington rather than publicly sanction him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press has reported that an 86-year-old Providence Rhode Island man died three weeks after a neurosurgeon operated on the wrong side of his head. The patient, whose name wasn&#8217;t released, died Saturday, and the state medical examiner was determining the cause of death.The man underwent emergency surgery at Rhode Island Hospital on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury-wrongful-death","tag-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Surgeon Operates on Wrong Side of Brain &#8212; Trial Attorney Blog &#8212; August 28, 2007<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Associated Press has reported that an 86-year-old Providence Rhode Island man died three weeks after a neurosurgeon operated on the wrong side of his &#8212; 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