title: My life changing experience following wrong site surgery.
abstract: Since being asked to write this article for the Journal of Perioperative Practice, I have been thinking a lot more about myself being a patient and not so much as a medical professional. Before this, being an Orthopaedic Nurse Practitioner took precedence as I couldn't get my head around being a patient or indeed that I had suffered as a result of wrong site surgery!
authors.affiliation: wrongsitesurgery@goolgemail.com
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McMonagle
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000601:surgery*; D008016:Life Change Events; D019300:Medical Errors