Doctors leave foot-long instrument in patient
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRAGUE (AP) — It took five long months for a Czech woman to discover the reason for her pain: Doctors had left a foot-long medical tool inside her abdomen.
This month, doctors at a clinic in the southeastern town of Ivancice discovered their colleagues had forgotten to remove a spatula-like surgical instrument from the woman following gynecological surgery in September.
Top regional official Michal Hasek apologized Zdenka Kopeckova, 66, and said Monday that the region, which is in charge of the clinic, plans to compensate her.
Clinic head Jaromir Hrubes blamed “a series of individual failures” and said four employees had been punished.
CT24 news television reported that the woman, who complained repeatedly to her doctors about the pain, plans to sue.
Good thing I'm not a Czech woman. I'd hate to spend five months with a spatula in my stomach. Everytime I drank a beer that thing would probably wobble back and forth. It sounds like the clinic in question has a lot of issues and "individual failures." That's pretty much uncalled for unless of course, they did it as a goof.
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