Generally, you can trust your organs to stay in one place. Sure, they may puff up with air or constrict to pump blood, but they do so in the same location in your body. That wasn't the case for a ...

WEBVTT HOSPITAL FOR SPINAL SURGERY AND LEFT WITH ONLY ONE KIDNEY. >> WHAT HAPPENED? THIS WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, AND A LITTLE BIT OF FEAR AND PANIC CAME IN BECAUSE, YES, PEOPLE CAN LIVE WITH ONLY ...

When Maureen Pacheco went to the hospital in April 2016, she was told she would be receiving back surgery, but wound up having a kidney taken out When Maureen Pacheco went to the hospital in April ...

A Florida surgeon has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine after removing a woman's kidney in April 2016 during back surgery, mistaking it for a cancerous tumor Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the ...

Maureen Pacheco who, at 51, went to Wellington Regional Medical Center in April 2016 to get the bones in her lower back fused because she was suffering pain from a car accident years earlier. She left ...

A Florida woman recently settled a medical malpractice lawsuit against a surgeon who removed her fully-functioning kidney during a 2016 spinal surgery. Maureen Pacheco's lawsuit against Dr. Ramon ...

DURING the past ten years 5 patients have been referred to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for renal homotransplantation because of unintentional surgical extirpation of all functioning renal tissue ...

A West Palm Beach surgeon has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine — among other penalties — for accidentally removing a woman’s kidney, thinking it was a cancerous mass, according to the Florida Board of ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. - A West Palm Beach surgeon has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine - among other penalties - for accidentally removing a woman's kidney, thinking it was a cancerous mass, according to the ...

A surgeon has to pay a fine of $3,000 for removing a kidney he mistakenly believed as tumor, which stems from not reading the medical records of the patient prior to the operation. The surgeon, Ramon ...

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Jan. 10--A West Palm Beach surgeon has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine -- among other penalties -- for accidentally removing a woman's kidney, thinking it was a cancerous mass, according to the Florida ...