This week we discuss a short series of wrong-sided brain surgery mishaps at Rhode Island Hospital in 2007. Although wrong-sided operations are quite rare, how did three happen at the same hospital in less than one year? Despite the Universal Protocol created in 2003 to prevent surgical mistakes like these from happening, we learn very quickly that instructions aren't very useful if you don't follow them...
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