It has been said that the best way to avoid committing medical malpractice is to always treat the patient as if s/he were your brother, mother, sister, father, best friend, etc. In one case, a female patient who had just undergone a hysterectomy was mistakenly identified as needing an ultrasound of the bladder and taken off to ultrasound. Her bladder was filled with saline, causing a surgical suture to tear loose. The patient was never asked her identity and her ID bracelet was never checked, despite her complaints that she was not supposed to have an ultrasound. She later suffered wound dehiscence, requiring a subsequent repair surgery. This resulted in a lawsuit. Do you think a lawsuit could have been prevented by telling the patient about the mistake?
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