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Doctors' mistake costs amputee a second leg

(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-01-28 09:39

Peruvian doctors amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man, then amputated the other leg when they realized their mistake.

"I was shocked when I lifted the sheets and saw they had taken his left leg," the man's daughter, Carmen Villanueva, told Peruvian radio station RPP.

Reuters

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