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"Never Events" In The OR: Why Victims Of Surgical Errors Need Urgent Legal Representation
Understanding the Anatomy of a "Never Event"
The term "Never Event" sounds like something out of a dark, dystopian novel, or perhaps a sanitized corporate euphemism designed to soften a horrific blow. In reality, it is a term coined in 2001 by Ken Kizer, the former CEO of the National Quality Forum, to describe medical errors so egregious, so shocking, and so entirely preventable that they should simply never happen in a civilized healthcare system. When we talk about these events, we aren't talking about acceptable clinical risks or known complications that patients sign away on consent forms. We are talking about systematic, catastrophic breakdowns in basic human safety protocols within the operating room.
I remember sitting across a conference table from a client named Sarah a few years back. She had gone in for a routine laparoscopic gallbladder removal—a procedure performed hundreds of thousands of times a year without incident. Weeks later, she was burning up with a fever, her abdomen distended, and she was in an agonizing pain that she described as "feeling like she was being digested from the inside out." It turned out the surgical team had left a foot-long laparotomy sponge inside her abdominal cavity. The sheer disbelief on her face as she showed me the X-ray—a ghostly, fibrous mass sitting right beneath her ribs—is something I will never forget. It was a textbook "Never Event," and the psychological shock of realizing her doctors had literally forgotten a piece of trash inside her body was almost worse than the
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