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NewsHospital sued for alleged wrong-site brain surgery
Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn, Mich., and two of its doctors are being sued for allegedly performing brain surgery on the wrong side of a patient's head. The patient, who died on Read more...
Accountability may end with CEO, but starts on the floor
This week, our sister publication, Hospital Impact, ran a moving column by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CEO Paul Levy in which he talks about how he and two other CEOs discussed their Read more...
Boston hospital discloses wrong-side surgery
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...
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