These are Ten Horrifying Stories That Will Make You Scared of Going to Hospitals

#5. Right procedure, wrong side.

Doctors at Rhode Island Hospital operated on an 82-year-old woman to stop bleeding in her skull. The neurosurgeon began her operation by drilling a hole on the right side of her head, although her CT scan showed that her bleeding was actually on the left side of her head.

#4. No, the other leg!

This incident is quite similar with the previous case, but this time it involved the amputation of the wrong leg. Doctors removed the wrong leg of a 52-year-old man in 1995; by the time that they noticed that they were operating on the wrong leg, they were too far gone and had to remove it.

#3. Are you “kidney” me?!

A patient in Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital, Minnesota underwent kidney removal due to cancer. However, doctors discovered that they made a mistake when they had the removed organ tested for cancer.

#2. “I’m awake and I can feel the pain…”

A man from West Virginia was driven to commit suicide after he underwent exploratory surgery in Raleigh General Hospital. In order to determine the cause of his abdominal pain, doctors conducted exploratory surgery. Although the man was given anaesthesia for the procedure, he could feel the pain and discomfort but could not move or communicate. The traumatic experience led him to take his own life.

#1. “Which artery is it again?”

Doctors mistakenly bypassed the wrong artery during a double bypass operation on Dana Carvey, leading to another emergency operation to remove the block from the correct artery.