RI hospital fined $150,000 in 5th wrong-site surgery since 2007

I'm suprised that they are not taking the extrodinary measure of doing a time-out prior to the surgery.

This is also where the staff and the physicians need to exercise a little common sense....if you are operating on a site that looks like nothing is wrong with it...shouldn't that clue you in??????

Prime example of poor work culture. Docs doing whatever they want, and nurses that aren't speaking up, and/or enabling them. It is sickening. No one can plead ignorance here. A wag of my finger to my home state hospital.

NURSES PUTTING THE INITIALS ON THE OPERATIVE EXTREMITY!!!!! No wonder they have problems. Talk about a poor work culture. Although I was talking with an orthopod recently and he has said the incidence of wrong site surgery nation wide is going up. I wonder if the attending MD turfing off their responsibility is the cause. Of course the nurse, or whomever, talking that responsibility is really showing poor judgement.