WRONG FINGER AMPUTATED
HOSPITAL SURGEON’S MISTAKE. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 14. A mistake on the part of the operating surgeon resulted in a patient at the public hospital having the wrong finger amputated during a recent operation, and it. is likely that the North Canterbury Hospital Board will be faced with a claim for damages. The patient was a joinery worker who wag admitted to hospital several weeks ago after an accident at a Sydenham factory. He had already lost the little finger on his right hand, anji on this occasion he badly injured the finder next to it. Attempts to heal the injury having failed it was decided to amputate it. A young, but fully qualified practitioner on the staff of the hospital, took charge .of the operation, bub instead of' the third finger he removed the middle finger. The case will probably be settled out of court. It is understood that the Hospital Committee of the board has already made an inquiry into the case.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22137, 15 December 1933, Page 11
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