In the most recent episode of "Seriously Strange," host Rob Dyke talks about three unusual cases of medical malpractice that had resulted in dire consequences. "Unbelievable Medical MISTAKES | SERIOUSLY STRANGE" discusses the cases of Donald Church, Jessica Santillan and Sherman Sizemore and the horrors they have experienced due to the mistakes of medical practitioners.

Donald Church's first operation to remove an abdominal tumor was held in May 2000. It is usually considered standard practice to count all the surgical tools that were used in the operation; however, the medical practitioners had failed to notice that the malleable retractor was left inside Church's body before they closed his incision. According to a BBC article, Church's doctors misunderstood his complaints about feeling tremendous pain and merely dismissed it as the usual pain that follows an operation.

Seventeen-year-old Jessica Santillan had been the victim of a botched transplant when she underwent a procedure to replace her heart and lungs in 2003. The mistake: someone had delivered donated organs with the wrong blood type, which Santillan's body had rejected. Doctors tried to revive her from coma through a second transplant, to no avail. CBS News reports that the mistake had simply been due to a "failure to communicate basic information."

A 73-year-old Baptist minister named Sherman Sizemore has been pushed to insanity after experiencing an operation wherein the anesthesiologist gave him paralyzing drugs, but failed to administer anesthesia. Sizemore had been conscious during his entire abdominal surgery but was unable to express the excruciating pain he was feeling as his body was being operated on. According to his loved ones, Sizemore had become a completely changed man after the surgery. It has been revealed that he had been convinced that people had been trying to bury him alive shortly before he committed suicide.

"Unbelievable Medical MISTAKES | SERIOUSLY STRANGE" was uploaded on Feb. 25, 2015 on Rob Dyke's YouTube channel and has been viewed over 200,000 times to date. Watch the video here.

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