Rationed health care aborts the wrong baby

Daily Mail on Sunday:

A woman was given a chemical abortion tablet by mistake after a nurse mixed up two patients with the same first name, a misconduct hearing has heard.

Ann Downer gave the drug to a woman who had gone into the clinic for an initial consultation.

When staff realised what had happened the distraught woman, named only as patient A, was called back to the clinic in pain and doctors subsequently advised her to undergo a surgical abortion.

Miss Downer, 44, should have administered the drug to a second woman, patient B, who was in the later stages of a chemical termination, the Nursing and Midwifery Council was told.

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The clinic's usual practice was to only call out first names of patients to protect their confidentiality while in the waiting room.

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The story comes from a "misconduct" panel and not from a malpractice case which apparently is not available with rationed health care. At least it was "free." Talk about an abortion...