A major error in handling breast biopsy samples (done to diagnose breast cancer) has devastated two women.

One woman was told she had breast cancer and had a mastectomy to remove her breast, the other was told she was healthy.  The unfortunate result is that the healthy woman had her healthy breast removed, while the other received no treatment.

While both women are now aware of the truth, one had a breast removed unnecessarily and the other had a delay in treatment that was not necessary.  Despite protocols in place to make sure samples are correctly identified, including having the patient confirm that the name on their sample is in fact theirs, this situation illustrates how important it is to have multiple systems in place to prevent errors.

In this case, which happened in New Zealand, an urgent investigation is underway to determine how the mix up happened in order to prevent it from occurring again.

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Jorge De La Rosa expected to be back pitching for the Colorado Rockies within a year of his Tommy John surgery.

Today, he knows that he won't be back within the year, which winds up on June 2nd.  He will be spending at least another 30 days in the minor leagues, hoping to get rid of his rehabilitation assignment and return to the big leagues.

The problem for De La Rosa is forearm tightness, which is not unusual after a Tommy John procedure.

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Phillip Phillips, American Idol singer, has put off surgery for fame.

According to TMZ, Phillips refused to have surgery before the final competition on Idol, despite his surgeon recommending he have kidney surgery right away. It has been reported that doctors were displeased with Phillips' current condition and recent weight loss.

The surgery Phillips needs requires at least a month to recover, so he will probably have the surgery as soon as is reasonable after the series sing-off next week.

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Enrique Milla hadn't been to a doctor in over a decade, despite high blood pressure and diabetes, but that didn't stop him from signing up for an elective penis implant.

While Milla was far from an ideal patient, not having sought health care in so many years and having poorly controlled blood sugar and blood pressure issues, no one expected that the surgery would result in flesh eating bacteria invading his body.  Nine days after the procedure, gangrene began to spread through his penis and eventually turned into a case of flesh eating bacteria. The procedure that was meant to restore Enrique Milla's ability to maintain an erection turned into a illness so severe that his penis is gone.

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