Florida Doctor Removes Woman’s ‘Tumor,’ Turns Out To Be Healthy Kidney


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Being a doctor can be a difficult profession. A lot of lives depend on you and your expertise, especially if you are a surgeon. The thing is, no matter how good some doctors are, they sometimes make mistakes, costly ones too. One doctor even made the mistake of removing a healthy kidney from a patient because he thought it was a tumor, it cost him more than $3,000.

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Back in April 2016, Ramon Vazquez, a surgeon for the Wellington Regional Medical Center in Florida had a patient named Maureen Pacheco. Vazquez had the task of cutting open Pacheco in a surgery for a back operation. However, during the procedure, Vazquez noticed what he believed was an abnormality in the pelvic area of the patient.

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According to Vazquez, it was a “gynecological malignancy, lymphoma and/or other metastatic disease.” Hence, without informing the patient or waiting for another doctor’s opinion, he cut and removed it off. Turns out, it was a healthy kidney which did not ascend to the patient’s abdomen, something that Vazquez would have known had he reviewed the patient’s medical records.

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Of course, the woman was distraught after losing a healthy kidney which could make her more susceptible to kidney failure. So, she sued all doctors involved and received $500,000 as settlement. As for Vazquez’s extended penalty, he was to be fined $3,000 and give an hour-long lecture on long-site surgery to the hospital staff, a decision which was made only late last year.

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