The complaint said the physician did a wide local excision on the left lower back instead of the right upper back. He rectified his error 17 days later.
MIAMI — Asking the patient to confirm where a cancer surgery should be performed after the patient had been given a sedative led to a Tampa area doctor performing a wrong site surgery, a state complaint said.
The complaint, filed Feb. 23, says a patient referred to in the complaint as “T.M.” came to Davidson’s office with a melanoma,according to the Mayo Clinic, on the right upper back last June 21. So, T.M. was fine with a “wide local excision” on the right upper back.
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