Trial for surgeon who removed wrong part of patient's brain

The Supreme Medical Court will rule this month on a malpractice suit against a surgeon at the Medical Academy in Warsaw. After a brain tumor operation performed on 22-year-old Katarzyna H. in 1997, the patient's condition did not improve. It then turned out that the tumor had not been removed and that a different part of the brain had been removed instead. A suit was filed in a medical court but the surgeon responsible for the operation was declared not guilty, although expert opinions indicated that a mistake had been made. "The daughter's state has improved," said the patient's father. "But since the first operation she is blind in one eye. I think that the surgeon who operated on her has ruined her life." (Zycie, pp. 1, 3) A.Z.