Husband
may sue
wife's

mixed-up
surgeons

PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -
The husband of a woman
who underwent surgery in-
tended for another woman
-—— and vice versa — in a mix-
up at Graduate Hospital said

he plans to sue over the
mistake.

“T'm going to have to do
something,” Affred Edmond-
son said recently. “Pm
definitely going to sue. I’m
not sure when. | have to get
myself together first.”

Edmondson said _ the
hospital has offered him no
compensation. He said he
told his wife about the error
and “she didn’t say nothing.”

His wife, Virginia, 54, was
recuperating, he said.

Mrs. Edmondson entered
the hospital for a
back operation, but instead
underwent surgery to
remove her parathyroid
glands. The same day, Annie
Robinson, 58, who was to
have the parathyroid opera-
tion, underwent surgery on
her back.

In each case, surgeons
stopped when they reahzed
the error.

Mrs. Robinson's husband,
Wesley, said he would wait
until his wife’s health im-
proves before deciding
whether to take legal action.

Barton Post, a lawyer for
the hospital and = its
designated spokesman,
would not discuss the condi-
tion of the patients.

“We have a review com-
mission which will do a very
thorough review to make

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damn well sure
like this doesn't»-tippen
again,” he said.

Asked if the panel's fin-
dings would be disclosed,
Post said:

“We'll have to cross that
bridge when we come to it. I
have to equivocate. We need
the permission of the pa-
tients.”

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Meanwhile, Henry
Nicholas, president’ of
District Council 1199C of the
National Union of Hospital
and Heatth Care Employees,
said he had asked District
Attorney Edward Rendell to
begin “an immediate and ex-
haustive investigation and
recommend swift prosecu-

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f at the province's colleges and universities. (UPC

tion for those at fault for the
near tragedy.”

Graduate recently
transferred several operating
room technicians and other
long-term staff in favor of
what it called a “primary
nursing care concept,”
Nicholas said. He believed
the surgery mix-up and the
transfer could be related.

987-2317

A21-Sunday News, March 30, 1980

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