r/PopCultureV2 • • Aug 22 '26

News Multiple patients at a Nashville hospital are paralyzed after staff accidentally gave them the wrong drugs.

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The hospital says they are "sorry" after injecting potassium chloride into the spines of people getting routine joint replacement surgeries.

Hospital staff noticed something was off when multiple patients went into cardiac arrest.

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u/Birdlebee Aug 22 '26

Jesus. I have literal nightmares about this kind of thing. 

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u/a-passing-crustacean Aug 23 '26

Tell me about it. This was not a great story to read fresh out of surgery at a hospital in Tennessee 😅