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Are they still operating on the wrong body part or leaving surgical instruments and sponges in patients after surgery? You bet!

State Health Dept: Final Medical Error Tally for 2006 is 85

INDIANAPOLIS - A state health department report shows 85 medical errors were reported last year in Indiana.

Health officials say the final report reveals the most common errors are bed sores, a foreign object left in patients after surgery and operations on the wrong body part.

It is the first year for the Medical Error Reporting system in Indiana.

It requires a concerted effort to perform surgery on the wrong body part or to leave a surgical instrument behind. It takes the active participation of more than one member of the surgical team. Maybe teams that perform this poorly should be called surgical gangs.

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