I recently told a client that was going in for surgery to write a note with a black marker pen on his good knee that said "NOT THIS ONE". That is some protection against the doctor getting the X-ray reveresd and operating on the wrong knee. Wrong site surgery is rare but it does happen.
See Operating Room Briefings and Wrong-Site Surgery
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Volume 204, Issue 2, Pages 236-243
M. Makary, A. Mukherjee, J. Sexton, D. Syin, E. Goodrich, E. Hartmann, L. Rowen, D. Behrens, M. Marohn, P. Pronovost
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