Takdir Kita Hanya Dia Yang Tahu

I got this from a friend of mine.  Sad to see people's life changed drastically because of other people's mistakes.  But who are we to control these things from happening? Hanya doa setiap hari dilindungi dari musibah dan mara bahaya. Semoga kita semua dijauhi dari teraniya dan juga menganiaya.

10 Unbelievable Medical Mistakes 1)The Fertility Clinic that used the wrong sperm:   When  Nancy Andrews, of Commack, N.Y., became pregnant after an in vitro fertilization procedure at a New York  fertility clinic, she and her husband expected a beautiful new addition to their family. What they did not expect  was a child whose skin was significantly darker than that  of either parent Subsequent DNA tests suggested that  doctors at New York Medical Services for Reproductive Medicine accidentally used another man's sperm to inseminate Nancy Andrews' eggs.  The couple has since raised Baby Jessica, who was born  Oct. 19, 2004, as their own, according to wire reports. But the couple still filed a malpractice suit against  the owner of the clinic, as well as the embryologist  who allegedly mixed up the samples.  2) Received the wrong heart and lungs, then died:  17-year-old  Jesica Santillian died 2 weeks after  receiving the heart and lungs of a patient whose blood type did not match hers. Doctors at the Duke University Medical Center failed to check the compatibility before surgery began.  After a rare second transplant operation to attempt to rectify the error, she suffered brain damage  and complications that subsequently hastened her death.  Santillian a Mexican immigrant, had come to the United States three years before to seek medical treatment for a  life-threatening heart condition.  The heart-lung transplant that surgeons at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., hoped would improve this condition instead put her in greater danger; Santillian,who had  type-O blood, had received the organs from a type-A donor.  The error sent the patient into a coma like state, and she died shortly after an attempt to switch the organs back out for compatible ones failed. The hospital blamed human error for the death,  along with a lack of safeguards to ensure a compatible transplant . According to reports, Duke reached an agreement on an  undisclosed settlement with the family. Neither the hospital nor the family is allowed to comment on the case.  3)  A $200,000 testicle: In yet another case of a wrongful operation, surgeons mistakenly removed the healthy right testicle of 47-year-old Air Force veteran Benjamin Houghton.  The patient had been complaining of pain and shrinkage of his  left testicle so doctors decided to schedule surgery  to remove it due to cancer fears. However, the veteran's medical  records suggest a series of missteps -- from an error on the consent form to a failure on the part of medical personnel to mark the proper surgical site before the procedure. The error, which took place at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, spurred a $200,000 lawsuit from Houghton and his wife.    4) A 13-Inch souvenir: Donald Church, 49, had a tumor in his abdomen when he arrived  at the University of Washington Medical Center in  Seattle in June 2000. When he left, the tumor was gone -- but a metal retractor had taken its place. Doctors admitted to leaving  the 13-inch-long retractor in Church's abdomen by mistake. It was not the first such incident at the medical center;  four other such occurrences had been documented at the hospital between 1997 and 2000. Fortunately, surgeons were able to remove the retractor shortly after it was discovered, and  Church experienced no long-term health consequences from the mistake.  The hospital agreed to pay Church $97,000.   5) An open heart invasive procedure.  on the wrong patient : Joan Morris (a pseudonym) is a 67-year-old woman admitted to a teaching hospital for cerebral angiography. The day after that procedure, she mistakenly underwent an invasive cardiac  electro physiology study.  After angiography,the patient was  transferred to another floor rather than returning to her  original bed. Discharge was planned for the following day.  The next morning, however,the patient was taken for a   open heart procedure. The patient had been on the operating table for an hour. Doctors had made an incision in her groin, punctured an artery, threaded in a tube and snaked it up  into her heart (a procedure with risks of bleeding, infection, heart attack and stroke). That was when the phone rang and a doctor from another department asked what are you doing with  my patient? There was nothing wrong with her heart.  The cardiologist working on the woman checked her chart, and  saw that he was making an awful mistake. The study was aborted, and she was returned to her room in stable condition.   6)Hospital makes a wrong-sided brain surgery...  for the third time in a year:  For the 3 time on the same year, doctors at Rhode Island Hospital have operated on the wrong side of a patient's head.  The most recent incident occurred Nov. 23 2007.  An 82-year-old woman required an operation to stop bleeding  between her brain and her skull. A neurosurgeon at the  hospital began a surgery by drilling the right side of the patient 's head, even though a CT scan showed bleeding on the left side, according to local reports.  The resident reportedly caught his mistake early,  after which he closed the initial hole and proceeded on the left side of the patient's head. The patient was listed  in fair condition on Sunday.  The case echoes of a similar mistake last February, in which a different doctor operated on the wrong side of a patient's head. And last August, an 86-year-old man died three weeks after a surgeon at Rhode Island Hospital accidentally operated  on the wrong side of his head.   7) The Surgeon who removed the wrong leg: In what was, perhaps, the most publicized case of a  surgical mistake in its time, a Tampa (Florida) surgeon mistakenly removed the wrong leg of his patient,  52-year-old Willie King, during an amputation procedure  in February 1995.  It was later revealed that a chain of errors before the  surgery culminated in the wrong leg being prepped for the  procedure. While the surgeon's team realized in the middle of  the procedure that they were operating on the wrong leg, it was already too late, and the leg was removed.  As a result of the error, the surgeon's medical license was suspended for six months and he was fined $10,000.  University Community Hospital in Tampa, the medical center where  the surgery took place, paid $900,000 to King and the  surgeon involved in the case paid an additional $250,000  to King.  8) The healthy kidney removed by mistake:  In St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a patient was submitted  at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital to have one of his kidneys  removed because it had a tumor believed to be cancerous. Instead, doctors removed the healthy one.  "The discovery that this was the wrong kidney was made the  next day when the pathologist examined the material  and found no evidence of any malignancy," said Samuel Carlson, M.D. and Park Nicollet Chief Medical Officer. The potentially cancerous kidney remained intact and functioning. For privacy and family's request, no details about the patient were released.   9)Wide-Awake Surgery led to his suicide: A West Virginia man's family claims inadequate anesthetic  during surgery allowed him to feel every slice of the surgeon's scalpel - a trauma they believe led him to take his own life two weeks later.  Sherman Sizemore was admitted to Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, W.Va., Jan. 19, 2006 for exploratory surgery to determine  the cause of his abdominal pain. But during the operation, he reportedly experienced a phenomenon known as anesthetic awareness -- a state in which a surgical patient is able to feel pain, pressure or discomfort during an operation,  but is unable to move or communicate with doctors.  According to the complaint, anesthesiologists administered  the drugs to numb the patient, but they failed to give him  the general anesthetic that would render him unconscious  until 16 minutes after surgeons first cut into his abdomen. Family members say the 73-year-old Baptist minister was driven to kill himself by the traumatic experience of being awake  during surgery but unable to move or cry out in pain.   10)  Not so funny: wrong artery bypassed:  Two months after a double bypass heart operation that was  supposed to save his life, comedian and former Saturday  Night Live cast member Dana Carvey got some disheartening news: the cardiac surgeon had by passed the wrong artery. It took  another emergency operation to clear the blockage that was  threatening to kill the 45-year-old funnyman and father of  two young kids. Responding to a $7.5 million lawsuit Carvey brought against him, the surgeon said he'd made  an honest mistake because Carvey's artery was unusually situated  in his heart. But Carvey didn't see it that way: "It's like  removing the wrong kidney. It's that big a mistake,"  the entertainer told People magazine.