{"id":704,"date":"2006-01-16T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T21:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/01\/16\/story-least-likely-to-amuse-while-awai"},"modified":"2006-01-16T17:52:54","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T21:52:54","slug":"story-least-likely-to-amuse-while-awaiting-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/01\/16\/story-least-likely-to-amuse-while-awaiting-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Least Likely to Amuse While Awaiting Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7844'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\">SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; South Korean doctors<br \/>\n        mistakenly removed part of the stomach of a patient due to have thyroid<br \/>\n        surgery, while removing the thyroid gland of another scheduled for stomach<br \/>\n        surgery, a hospital official said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>      The surgical mix-up took place at Konyang University Hospital in the city<br \/>\n      of Taejon, about 150 km (95 miles) south of Seoul and involved two women<br \/>\n      in their sixties who were both in for surgery the same day, hospital spokesman<br \/>\n      Kim Man-sik said.<\/p>\n<p>      Medical staff found out about the mix-up, which took place on December<br \/>\n      29, only after they were filing paperwork on the two women, he said.<\/p>\n<p>      Doctors later performed the correct surgical procedures on both women and<br \/>\n      re-attached the part of the stomach they had removed from the patient with<br \/>\n      the thyroid problem, Kim said.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"> from <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyid=2006-01-16T145521Z_01_SEO21349_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-SURGERY.xml\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/01\/16\/story-least-likely-to-amuse-while-awaiting-surgery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-and-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}