Surgeon Disciplined for Removing Wrong Kidney

[Karasu]

From AP

Courtesy of The Orange County Register

A California surgeon has been disciplined for removing a prisoner's healthy kidney and leaving the diseased one intact.

The Orange County Register reported Tuesday that the state medical board placed Dr. Charles Coonan Streit on probation for three years.

Full Article from The Orange County Register

http://bit.ly/1CF8Zwq

[Patient Zero]

Surgeons are more likely to leave objects, such as sponges and instruments, behind in the body after stitching up an incision, the study found.

This makes me feel so much more at ease.

[Princess Serenity]

^ Ew. That's nasty. O-o;

[Bendy Demon]

First off I would not classify this as "Medical Wackiness" but outright malpractice.

I am sure that a diseased kidney would look different from the healthy one so how this could happen should, by all rights, surprise me but in this day and age I am not surprised.

What sickens me is that the doctor was placed on probation for three years. Probation my swollen hinney! He should go back to med school so he can learn to tell the difference between a diseased organ and a healthy one.