Case Report
A day later, the hospital tells you that you do not have the original problem, is the pathology report was mistaken identity.
was suddenly diagnosed with malignant diseases
Mr Tai is the 55-year-old executive of a company, a business trip back to Beijing in September this year, he felt sore throats, to a nearby hospital and was diagnosed with acute laryngitis. But nearly a month treatment, no noticeable improvement. October 25, Dai came to China Academy of Medical Sciences Cancer Hospital for further examination. October 29, he made a throat mirror room Surprisingly, this investigation has identified a big problem.
The throat can be seen 8 mm purple nodule; another pathology report card reads: The right carotid had a size 1.5 × 1.2 × 0.7cm in the nodules, and there is a large shaped cells, need further examination. See the report card on the patient name and age were consistent with their own, acute heart Dai Fire Attack has been too busy to think anything else, he did not notice, the diagnosis of a single date of this report is October 28, the inspection time than he a day in advance.
bad news to his family great pain
single holding two reports, Dai see a doctor quickly. Doctors told him the situation is very serious: either cut the throat surgery, so you can save your life,
lisseur, but he will lose ability to speak, and even after a meal but also with dedicated switch; or to fate, but her condition deteriorated at any time lead to death.
listening to the doctors, Dai struggling with out of the consulting room, and then slumped on the stairs of a butt. Face of the sudden bad news, he almost collapsed. cost.
pathology reports were just mistaken identity
yesterday morning, according to pathology report card However, Dai explained what he wanted to immune laboratory, the doctor carefully checked, the report said no Dai. Subsequently, the pathology room staff rushed to the scene after checking Dai explained that due to computer system errors, Dai was mistaken identity, he received a pathology report for patients discharged after surgery.
Dai was immediately overwhelmed by the throat to the mirror room, the doctor saw him deja vu, recalling a moment later, he did not tell Dai biopsy done for him, and thus can not have pathology reports . However, the doctor did not know to get the pathology report from Dai where patients report more I do not know the name and age why the match with Mr. Dai. The doctor said he thought the rule of thumb Dai throat nodules should be benign vascular tumor, the so-called shaped large cells do not exist.
this out of the hospital Dai Although an easy, but think about what had happened the past few days is still very angry, sense of responsibility? the patient the wrong medical record number, and the pathologist discovered in time, to Dai for explanations and apologies. After the discovery of errors in the hospital, the hospital notified the disease in time to do the real patients for further examination and treatment. Pathology room doctors explained to reporters, medical record number is only when the patient medical identification number, as doctors operational errors, mistakenly enter into Dai's medical record number of patients with another medical record number, so Dai baffling to many will get a pathology report.
reporter Tan Wen Chen and photo