“A physician assistant and a nurse present during the surgery said the surgeon ‘was working in the exact location you would expect…(the gallbladder) to be located,’ according to the DPH’s investigation report.
However, the patient had a lot of internal inflammation and an unusual internal anatomy, which made the surgery more complex, Muller said.
‘From a medical standpoint, absolutely it’s unusual to misidentify an organ,’ Muller said. ‘But certainly, this was an unusual case.’
In addition to the state probe, hospital staff and a team from a major Boston hospital also reviewed the case and the related policies and procedures, he said. “

“Cheap flights and ubiquitous worldwide communications are the stuff of globalization. Ready travel lets people oppressed at home taste the joys of free society, while the Net exposes them to the ideas and customs underpinning that social order. The effect is viral, spreading liberal values and economic growth to benighted dictatorships and hopeless pits of poverty. So it’s difficult to grasp that these two innovations might also be an imminent menace to Western civilization.”

“At the first sign of weakness, these new-wave Vandals will log on to urge their diasporic compatriots to attack you on your own soil. Failing that, they’ll hop on the next flight, pick up their baggage, and sidle into Starbucks to download the latest instructions from Abu Ayyub al Masri.”