Oh shit! So it doesn’t only happen in jokes

This is the sort of thing you think has got to be a joke, surely it couldn’t happen in real life?

Doctors in Peru amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man, then amputated the other leg when they realised their mistake.  He went in to have his right leg removed as it had an ulcer, but the doctors cut off his left leg, then upon realising it was the wrong one, cut off the right one too.

The Alberto Sabogal Hospital in the coastal district of Callao just north of Lima said it had suspended the doctors involved in the botched surgery for a life-threatening ulcer, pending an investigation.

I wonder what the doctors said when they realised their error – I’m betting “oh shit” would have been the first thing that went through their minds.  Definitely one of those “oh shit” moments!