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Outrageous surgical “errors”<\/a> continue to maim and kill patients throughout Georgia and the United states despite requirements that hospitals and doctors abide by a standard set of procedures to prevent surgical mistakes.<\/p>\n

These errors include operating on the wrong patient or the wrong body part.<\/p>\n

This inexcusable problem is highlighted in a new study in the Archives of Surgery. The data was drawn from an insurance database in Colorado that included 27,370 self-reported incidents from 6,000 physicians from 2002 to mid-2008. Doctors in the insurance plan receive incentives for early reporting of adverse events.<\/p>\n

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