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Report: OR staff lapse led to surgical error

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   September 03, 2008

The operating room staff at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston failed to conduct a crucial verbal safety check prior to a June surgery in which doctors operated on the wrong part of a patient's body, according to a state investigation. The investigation also states that "the simple system of marking the location of an incision failed."

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