A doctor who wrongly filled a balloon with gas before inserting it into an octogenarian patient’s anus, causing the balloon to burst and injure her rectum, may have done so because of the busy and distracting environment, according to an investigation report released on Friday.
Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, where the blunder happened, apologised again for the error two months ago, and accepted the probe’s findings.
The 86-year-old patient had a virtual colonoscopy at the...
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