Friday, 10. September 2004

Med student mix-up basically bastes woman in olive oil


Oops! A medical intern at a western Austria hospital goofed. Instead of injecting an elderly patient with antibiotics, he shot her up with olive oil. The woman was in the hospital to get her appendix removed. Officials at Steyr Hospital say vials of the medicine and oil had been left at the bedside and the intern picked up the wrong one. The olive oil was supposed to have been used for a massage.

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