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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Maggie O'Neill and Freya Coombes

Woman wakes up from surgery to find doctors operated on the wrong leg

Jam Press

A Brazilian woman has filed a police report against a doctor after she woke up from knee surgery and realised the wrong leg had been operated on.

Bianca Petermann Stoeckl said she went to the Unimed Hospital in Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, for surgery on her left knee. But upon waking up, she said she discovered doctors had operated on her right knee instead, Jam Press reports.

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