Story Least Likely to Amuse While Awaiting Surgery

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean doctors
mistakenly removed part of the stomach of a patient due to have thyroid
surgery, while removing the thyroid gland of another scheduled for stomach
surgery, a hospital official said Monday.

The surgical mix-up took place at Konyang University Hospital in the city
of Taejon, about 150 km (95 miles) south of Seoul and involved two women
in their sixties who were both in for surgery the same day, hospital spokesman
Kim Man-sik said.

Medical staff found out about the mix-up, which took place on December
29, only after they were filing paperwork on the two women, he said.

Doctors later performed the correct surgical procedures on both women and
re-attached the part of the stomach they had removed from the patient with
the thyroid problem, Kim said.

from Reuters