Doctors removed the wrong body parts or left medical equipment inside the bodies of hundreds of Americans last year, data shows.
A story about a 70-year-old Alabama man who died when surgeons removed his liver instead of his spleen shocked the nation earlier this month.
Now, a report into these so-called ‘never events’ – accidents so egregious they should never happen – has laid bare how these cases have been on the rise since 2019.