Hospital fined after 3 botched brain surgeries in a year (a blast from the past)

Is anyone still going to insist that America doesn't need health care reform pronto?

This story is from 2007, but it was largely covered up until now. (The media has instead been worried about folks in Britain and Canada waiting more than a week for cosmetic surgery.)

A hospital in Rhode Island was fined following its third instance in a single year of a surgeon performing brain surgery on the wrong side of the patient's head.

These 3 errors were by 3 different doctors. In one of these instances, the patient died.

And Richard Shelby calls this "the best health care system the world has ever known." Seriously, he said that.

(Source: http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1127mistakensurgeries27-on.html)