Nation IN BRIEF : Hospital Is Fined for Brain Surgery Error
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The New York State Health Department announced that it fined Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center $12,000 for operating on the wrong side of a patient’s brain. Half of the fine was suspended on the condition that the leading cancer treatment facility not violate state standards in the next year. In May 1995, Dr. Ehud Arbit operated on the wrong side of the brain of Rajeswari Ayyappan, the mother of Indian movie star Sridevi Ayyappan. The doctor wrongly used the X-ray of an Indian man.
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