Source: http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_276154557.html 

Woman Wins Lawsuit, Gauze Left Inside Stomach

(CBS4) FORT LAUDERDALE When a woman went into a Broward hospital to give birth to her child, she not only left with her baby, but also with a foot-long piece of gauze cloth inside her.

A Broward County jury on Tuesday awarded her more than $2.4-million in a malpractice suit, which included punitive damages, claiming she is permanently disabled.

Doctors at Memorial Hospital West performed a Caesarean section on Karlene Chambers on September 11, 2001, the day the Twin Towers in New York City were attacked by terrorists.

The suit claimed that two weeks later, the first-grade school teacher was readmitted to another hospital and placed in intensive care for growing abdominal pains.

A CAT scan revealed that surgeons who performed her Caesarean surgery left a foot-long sponge in her body.

Her lawsuit claimed that a dangerous infection caused permanent disability to her abdomen and uterus. Her attorney, Crane Johnstone, said she will no longer be able to bear children.

 

Sucks to be her, man i hate doctors.

lol you think thats bad, I heard of a bunch of times they left things like scalpels and all manner of large, metal objects inside people. There was a really fucked up statistic about that...like what percentage of surgery patients get stuff left in them....it was WAY too high, but I can't remember the exact number

lol "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks AND blows."

WOW How the hell do you leave a sponge that is a foot long in a women's body. WTF were they thinking?!?!

Oh well she has money now.

lol I saw some guy on TLC got a rib retractor left inside his ribcage.

ive got a ribcage, love that word lol

Ribcage?......yeah, i guess that is a cool word....

as is the word Spine, Used in a Sentence, "The Man had his spine ripped out from his asshole"

I like the "partially barfed up heart" diagnoses from Futurama, myself.