Surgeon removes wrong organ from 84-year-old patient—now she has stage 5 kidney disease

Thank you Lisa Marie Basile for quoting me in the August 2025 article in MDLinx. Removal of the wrong body part is a rare but tragic occurrence. In this article, I discussed how organs can be confused as well as the safety protocols that are now in place across the country, making the removal of the wrong organ much less likely than in the past.

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