A shocking medical error at Basel University Hospital: A young woman underwent unnecessary surgery after a lab mix-up.
32-year-old Sarah Miesch was told cancer cells had been found and agreed to cervical surgery.
Two months later came the bombshell, her the samples had been swapped. She never had any signs of cancer. The operation should not have happened.
The hospital has admitted responsibility, its insurer offering her CHF 4,000.
The chief pathologist says the mistake occurred when a sample was briefly separated from its ID number, stressing such errors are exceptionally rare among the hundreds of thousands of tests processed each year.
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