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Doctors amputate patient's wrong leg

Doctors in an Austrian state amputated the wrong leg of a 91-year-old woman by mistake, and then had to cut off the infected leg too.

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Doctors in an Austrian state amputated the wrong leg of a 91-year-old woman by mistake, and then had to cut off the infected leg too.

Surgeons at the St. Johann Hospital in Austria's western state of Tirol, conducted the wrong surgery June 16, and later realised that they amputated a healthy leg after the surgery was over.

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