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David C. Ring: Boston Surgeon Admits Surgery On Wrong Hand Of Patient

by National Confidential | 10 November 2010 | 7:14 pm EST

Topics David C. Ring, Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Medical, Science, Surgery, Weird

Dr. David C. Ring picture Dr. David C. Ring, a hand and arm surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, described in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine how a series of personal and system-wide mistakes led him to operate on the right hand instead of the left hand of a 65-year-old woman [...]

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