Surgeons Are Revealing Their Wildest And Scariest Moments They've Had On The Job, And I'm Screaming
April 27, 2025
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“I’m a surgeon, and I also do litigation work. So, most ‘errors’ in surgery are not related to someone slipping and accidentally cutting the wrong thing, although that can happen with misidentification of anatomy such as bile ducts during gallbladder removal (a surprisingly common error) — it’s usually errors in decision-making, such as the timing of surgery.
