Wednesday September 02, 2009 at 8:42

“We would like to apologise if Mr Wattson felt dissatisfied with the care he received at Great Western Hospital.”

Response of hospital authorities to Mark Wattson, who had his appendix removed there, only to collapse four weeks later and discover that he had a ruptured appendix. Apparently it had not been removed earlier, and Wattson still does not know whether the doctors removed anything else. He had to return to the hospital a third time when his incision became infected. (Via Reason.)