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Miscarriage. she's waiting in a hospital room when a nurse comes in and asks if her name is carrie. carrie says yes and follows the nurse to a ct scan room. the nurse tells carrie a doctor wants a scan of her abdomen, and they give her the scan, even though carrie is three months pregnant. >> if you're radiating the abdomen, by definition the baby is going to be in the field of radiation and the baby's going to get radiated. >> that ct scan is a mistake. the hospital has confused carrie with another patient named carrie. >> the scan on the pregnant woman will increase the risk that that child ...

>> my husband and i were in awe. we're like, can you repeat that again? and she said frankly, i lost sense of direction. >> they messed up and did this eye and then did this eye. >> surgeons are supposed to initial or mark the correct side like they did with jesse. but here's one way they can still get confused. >> we place drapes over the entire area to keep it sterile. mistakes can be made very rarely when you have draping that obscures the mark. >> in the u.s. seven patients every day suffer body part mix-ups. just before surgery make sure you confirm with the nurse and the surgeon the corr...

Jesse matlock has a wandering right eye. the 3-year-old needs surgery to have it fixed. he goes in for the operation, and the surgeon cuts into the left eye instead of the right. >> my husband and i were in awe. we're like, can you repeat that again? and she said frankly, i lost sense of direction. >> they messed up and did this eye and didn't did this eye. >> surgeons are supposed to initial or mark the correct side like they did with jesse. but here's one way they can still get confused. >> we place drapes over the entire area to keep it sterile. mistakes can be made very rarely when you hav...

She's waiting in a hospital room when a nurse comes in and asks if her name is carrie. carrie says yes and follows the nurse to a ct scan room. the nurse tells carrie a doctor wants a scan of her abdomen, and they give her the scan, even though carrie is three months pregnant. >> if you're radiating the abdomen, by definition the baby is going to be in the field of radiation and the baby's going to get radiated. >> that ct scan is a mistake. the hospital has confused carrie with another patient named carrie. >> the scan on the pregnant woman will increase the risk that that child will get leuk...

Radiation could give them cancer. if possible, instead of a ct scan get an ultrasound or an mri because they have no radiation at all. still ahead on my list, metal and an mri are a bad combination. and an unbelievably long e.r. wait costs this toddler her limbs. the one call you can make to speed things up during an emergency. i am rich. most weekends, you'll find me on my mega-yacht, which i bought from a mattress chain mogul, who could no longer afford the monthly payments. yes, i am rich. that's why i drink the champagne of beers. have my stomach feeling all knotted up. i've tried laxative...