Doctors operate on wrong side of two patients' heads.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June, 2005 | by Olmstead, Rob

Byline: Rob Olmstead Daily Herald Staff Writer Wearing big, bright buttons on their lapels that read "L" and "R," two suburban residents Wednesday showed they know what they claim their doctors didn't - their left from their right. In two unrelated cases, Rashida Aziz, 35, of Lombard and Elie G.

Ghawi, 62, of St. Charles had the wrong side of their heads operated on. In Ghawi's case, doctors from Loyola University Medical Center on Sept. 4, 2003, opened up the left side of his head and began drilling into his skull before they realized they were supposed to be operating on the right side. They stopped and proceeded with the correct side during the same operating session. In Aziz's case, Dr. Konstantin Slavin completed an entire operation on the right side...