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Sanjay Gupta: I Screwed Up in IDing Nepali Girl in CNN Report

Medical Blunder

TV’s roaming neurosurgeon says his mistaken report about his emergency surgery on a 14-year-old girl wasn’t journalistic puffery—it was the result of confusion amid Nepal’s quake chaos.

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“I hate mistakes. I really hate them,” Sanjay Gupta told The Daily Beast on Wednesday, a few hours after acknowledging the distinct probability of an epic blunder.

CNN’s dashing resident neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent—who frequently

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