Medical Malpractice - Uncommon Surgical Errors


  

 

Obtaining Claims for your Injuries presents the following article about unusual and uncommon surgical errors.  Every day it seems we hear about something unusual being "left behind" in a patient, so this is not just an interesting plot twist in a TV series!  Contact an attorney in your area if you have been a victim of this type of medical malpractice.

Television watchers who follow Grey’s Anatomy avidly will recall in the first season a woman came back to the hospital with a piece of a towel left inside of her abdomen from an earlier surgery at the same hospital. It was a horrific situation for the woman to be in as she had gone into the hospital expecting to be fixed and came out with a new problem that took years of mixed diagnoses to fix. While it may sound like fiction, it is not rare for a surgical team to forget to remove something from an individual’s body cavity prior to stitching the person up.
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