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BOSTON — A major teaching hospital has been cited by federal and state health inspectors after doctors operated on the wrong location on three spine surgery patients.
All three unconnected errors happened since September.
Dr. Kenneth Sands, senior vice president of health care quality at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, told The Boston Globe the surgeons apparently miscounted the patients’ vertebrae and operated directly above or below where they were supposed to.
Two operations involved the same surgeon. The hospital did not release names.
