South Dakota surgeon Scott Baker has admitted that he mistakenly removed a woman’s healthy kidney during a surgery in Sioux Falls in October 2016. The doctor, however, denied that he breached the standard of care.
According to the Argus Leader, Dena Knapp was supposed to have an adrenal gland and a mass on the gland surgically removed on Oct. 5, 2016, but she claimed that Baker removed her healthy right kidney instead.
Knapp claimed that she was not informed about the mix-up until she was released from the hospital.
In a lawsuit she filed in August, she alleges that Baker had known on the day of the operation that he had not removed the adrenal gland, since he was notified by the pathology department of Avera McKennan Hospital.
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