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Hospital mistakenly removes 2/3 of patient's stomach after diagnosis mix-up

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A surgeon at Nishichita General Hospital in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture, mistakenly removed about two-thirds of an ulcer patient's stomach, after a mix-up in which he thought the patient had stomach cancer.

According to the hospital, an 80-year-old man, who was supposed to have surgery for stomach cancer, was sent home at the end of April after he was mistakenly diagnosed as having a stomach ulcer, Fuji TV reported. That man has since been admitted to a different hospital.

Hospital officials said a detailed examination was conducted in mid-April on the two patients; a male cancer patient in his 80s, and a male patient in his 50s with possible gastric cancer symptoms. The examination was carried out on the same date for both patients, and the samples were mistakenly mixed up, showing that the 80-year-old patient had an ulcer, while the other patient had stomach cancer.

Two-thirds of the 50-year-old man's stomach were removed in an operation at the end of May. The error was discovered after no signs of cancer were found in the removed parts of the man's stomach and the hospital conducted an investigation.

The hospital director revealed the mistake at a news conference this week, saying a clinical test lab employee apparently put the samples in containers without verifying the names of the patients on the labels.

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No way should this happen. Don't they put names, date of birth and a unique ID number on every patient record and sample? Just mixing them up solely because they were examined on the same day is gross negligence. I hope they both sue this amateur establishment

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Maybe they didn't label the floppy disks correctly? Or got the fax number wrong? or Windows 2000BC crashed?

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wow, he better sue the hell out of them... billions at the very least

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If they're smart they'll settle out of court, there's no way you can excuse that

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Well im a Butcher Ill do a gastronomy on the doctor as compensation and Transplant it to the aggrieved man .

On top of that as the chap is 80 what say the Government give him eighty million yen.

A hospital of his own and all staff to run it.

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