Doctors Lengthen Wrong Leg

(Changsha, China) Five-year-old Miao Mingming underwent surgery at Xiangya Second Hospital to lengthen his withered right leg. Exiting the operating room, the boy's family was shocked to find his left leg in a cast.

Chief doctor Zhao said: "I am very sorry about what happened. Before the surgery, the patient was lying on his back and received full anaesthesia, and then the surgery was done with the patient lying on his stomach."

I don't buy it. Whether the boy was on his stomach, his back or doing a handstand, competent health professionals should be able to see which leg was shorter.