The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Doctors suspended for removing wrong kidney
Open accessAbstract
Two doctors who mistakenly removed a patient's only working kidney have been suspended for 12 months by the General Medical Council. Mr John Gethin Roberts, a consultant urologist, and registrar Mr Mahesh Goel faced the GMC's professional conduct committee 18 months after being acquitted of manslaughter in the death of 70 year old patient Graham Reeves. Mr Reeves underwent what should have been a right nephrectomy at the Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli, South Wales, in January 2000. But under Mr Roberts's supervision, Mr Goel removed the patient's left kidney in error. On …
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“Laterality errors have the potential to cause patient disability or even death, such as removing a patient’s only functioning kidney [11], performing a wrong-side amputation [12], or removal of the healthy, cancer-free testicle [13].”
Citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Weng, K.-H., Chou, Y.-C., Kuo, Y.-T., Hsieh, T.-J., & Liu, C.-F. (2025) · JMIR formative research · doi:10.2196/76384
“Laterality errors have the potential to cause patient disability or even death, such as removing a patient’s only functioning kidney [11], performing a wrong-side amputation [12], or removal of the healthy, cancer-free testicle [13].”
Metadata
- Authors
- Dyer, O.
- Corresponding author
- Dyer, Owen
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2004-01-29
- Volume
- 328
- Issue
- 7434
- Pages
- 246.2
- ISSN
- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
- PMC
- PMC1143788
- OpenAlex
- W1982161868
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.bmj.com/company/legal-information/terms-conditions/legal-information/tdm-licencepolicy (tdm)
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Social Sciences › Law › Medical and Health Sciences Research
- Keywords
- wrong-site surgery, nephrectomy, medical negligence, professional misconduct, General Medical Council, urologists, patient safety
- MeSH terms
- United Kingdom, Humans, Kidney Transplantation, Medical Errors
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
