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Hong Kong brain surgeon operates on wrong side of patient’s skull

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A serious medical blunder at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in which a doctor operated on the wrong side of a patient’s skull, has led to an investigation by the facility. The doctor cut open the left side of a woman’s skull, when it was actually the right side that was bleeding and in need of surgery. The 54-year-old woman was transferred to Queen Elizabeth Hospital on Tuesday night. Hong Kong Hospital Authority to launch training programme to cut number of medical blunders A brain...

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