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Three, creating growing questions as to whether three years provides enough training and whether or not the current four years is even enough to begin with. joining me, dr. stephen garner of new york methodist hospital. dr. garner, great to see you. >> great to see you, jamie. jamie: let's talk about the mistakes that are made, how troubling is the trend? >> it is nothing new and if you look at it the trend is decreasing but no mistake is acceptable when you're dealing with surgery and people's lives but there are basic things people can do and surgeons and patients to avoid the mistakes. for ...

Operation on the eye that needed it. i'm not understanding that part. hospital officials are looking into what happened and now the parents say they actually may sue for malpractice. >> it is called wrong side surgery. it happens more often than you think. they do it with removing the wrong kidneys. the medical profession has tried to make this standard procedure. >> literally, i sat in on a knee surgery when i was a health reporter. they literally wrote, this letter in black sharpee and not this one. this poor kid. this is an interesting story as well about the army sending new gear in to p...