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The state Department of Public Health has fined Dominican Hospital $25,000 following an error that resulted in the wrong patient undergoing an appendectomy.





Hospital staff told state inspectors that the technologist had trouble starting the required intravenous line for the first patient and took her out of the CT scan room to complete that task.





However, the patient's information had already been entered into the computer system for the CT scan. After the second patient's scan was completed, a radiology technician noted the error, removed the first patient's information and entered information on the second patient.





When the first patient's information was deleted from the computer in the scan room, it was not deleted from the computer system used by the radiologist.





He would not say whether the radiologist involved still works at Dominican.