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Boston hospital discloses wrong-side surgery

July 7, 2008 — 8:07am ET | By Anne Zieger
A surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center operated on the wrong side of a patient this week--and in a rare act of transparency, hospital officials disclosed the event promptly in an e-mail to... Read more...