Surgeon Did Not Read the Medical Record - Patient Should Not Have Been Operated on and Died

The patient died the day after surgery.

A surgeon at Sørlandet Hospital in Arendal allegedly failed to read a cancer patient's medical record before initiating an operation that should never have been performed. The patient died after the operation.

The surgeon did not read the cancer patient's medical records before performing the operation. The procedure should never have been performed, and the patient died.