WE all have bad days at work, but for a team of surgeons in Paris recently, their sloppy work involved accidentally removing a healthy kidney from an elderly man with cancer, leaving behind just one of the blood cleaning organs, which was diseased.
Known as a nephrectomy, the medical procedure involving the kidney removal has been reported to give cancer patients a five-year survival rate of over 90 percent - which has since plummeted for the 77-year-old patient, thanks to the dodgy work of his surgeons.
The error was made despite the fact that the man had correctly filled out the checklist before the operation.
The man's family has since initiated legal action against Assistance Publique-Hpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), which runs the hospital that he was operated in.
A similar incident occurred in 2012 when a surgeon in Strasbourg in France was suspended for five months after he also mistakenly removed a healthy kidney from a woman in her 70s after the discovery of a tumour.
According to Radio France, the doctor claimed that the mistake was made due to the absence of X-days on the day of operations.
However, several of his colleagues had already questioned his abilities as a surgeon, after he had previously been suspended for six months in 2006 when an 18-year-old man died on the operating table in a clinic he worked at, but had not been found guilty.
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