This just in from the WTF? Department. And by “just in” we mean it’s from Tuesday. Whatevs, brah.

If you’re ever in need of brain surgery, stay the eff out of Rhode Island. Honestly, I don’t know why you would want to go to Rhode Island anyway.

Rhode Island Hospital, in Providence (the only city in Rhode Island that I know of) has been fined fifty Gs by the state health department for performing surgery on the wrong side of a patient’s brain on three seperate occasions this year.

“We are extremely concerned about this continuing pattern,” said health department director and stater of the obvious David R. Gifford.

Well no shit, Dave. I, too, find this pattern concerning.

The most recent case happened Friday when the chief resident started operating on the wrong side of an 82-year-old patient’s brain, the health department said. The patient was OK, the health department and hospital said.

In February, a different doctor performed neurosurgery on the wrong side of another patient’s head, said Andrea Bagnall-Degos, a health department spokeswoman. That patient was also OK, she said.

In August, however, a patient died a few weeks after a third doctor operated on the wrong side of his brain. The death prompted the state to order the hospital to take a series of steps to ensure such a mistake would not happen again, including an independent review of its neurosurgery practices and better verification from doctors of surgery plans.

The hospital is owned by Lifespan, a not-for-profit corporation. It serves as a teaching hospital for Brown University.

A teaching hospital for Brown University you say? Fantastic.