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Patient put under the knife after staff mixed up results

Posted on Jan 24, 2012 - 12:00 PM

AN UNLUCKY patient underwent major surgery which was unnecessary after hospital staff mixed up test samples, a new report has revealed. The blunder was the subject of one of 166 successful claims for medical negligence against the State in 2010 which resulted in an ‘out of court’ compensation payout ...

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