Surgical Items Left in Patients

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Okay, this is more terrifying than any ghost story you can tell.

[April 22, 2009] In Connecticut, hospitals reported 65 cases of leaving “retained objects” in patients during the four-year period from mid-2004 to mid-2008, according to state Department of Public Health records…

Source: Hartford Courant

  1. SimonGodOfHairdos April 25th, 2009 3:41 pm

    My grandmother had bladder surgery in the ’60s, and they left a needle inside her. She complained of pain for several years, but as she tells it, women’s complaints of womanly-area pain were often disregarded. Her doctor kept telling her it was in her imagination until she had an x-ray several years later and the needle could be seen.

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