[rocksblues]

Now that had to hurt!

[avg_freeper]

They should of done a FOD walk.

[mitchbert]

"Surgery is extremely complex these days," Conner said. "Instrument sets are extremely complex. They have large numbers of instruments on them."

I guess counting the pieces before and after the procedure never occurred to them...

[RockinRight]

Bizzare...and scary.

[PeterFinn]

"Lawsuit accuses surgeon of leaving instrument in patient's uterus"

I didn't know you could get a tenor sax in there.

[Righter-than-Rush]

Sue the pants off that Doctor! How can the Dr. defend leaving a scapel inside a woman's womb? Million dollar judgement! Loss of licensure! New career... metal detectors?

[Capagrl]

Geisinger at Danville is an amazing hospital and absolutely a facility that central PA is fortunate to have. They saved my son's life when he was 9 months old and I am eternally grateful that they were there for us.

Mistakes DO happen - it's only human. I don't know that putting pressure on hospitals and doctors to perform at levels virtually impossible to achieve is very fair. I mean, the woman is OK, right? No information about sustained long-term bleeding or needing to have a full hysterectomy, right?

[Hank Rearden]

A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Health said there are no state requirements regarding instrument counts in operating rooms.

Ah-hah! The origin of the problem. A lack of laws.

It's a fundamental flaw of our society - there just aren't enough laws to make life perfect. Yet.

[Dat Mon]

Yo Bud...hol' ma scalpel...

[KMC1]

4 inch instrument? Good grief - where'd this guy get his medical license

[montag813]

What is she suing to get? They said they were sorry. Two days of pain and excreting a 4" instrument from your vagina. Yes, it sucks. But will some idiot jury give her $20 million?

[reagan_fanatic]

Two days later, she went to the bathroom, and the instrument emerged from her vagina

Did the Doctor charge her with theft?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Lawsuit accuses surgeon of leaving instrument in patient's uterus

I love my cigar, but I take it out once in a while. - Groucho Marx.

[Gingersnap]

Can't they bar code this stuff somehow? I understand that keeping track of a bunch of gory, slime covered instruments is difficult but can't we use technology here? I don't how autoclaving (or whatever) would impact this but there must be something.

[Joe 6-pack]

Seems to me the doc could use some remedial training....

[2banana]

A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Health said there are no state requirements regarding instrument counts in operating rooms.

Even in old episodes of MASH, they had instrument counts...

[RobRoy]

Give her a nice big screen tv in exchange for returning a valuable instrument.

She didn't even need surgery to have it removed. What a weeny!

Speaking of weenies, this could have hurt her husband more than it did her.

[curmudgeonII]

Forty years ago, when I was at the Indiana University Medical Center, the standard riddle among medical students was, "What do you call the guy who grasduates last in his class in the School of Medicine?"

"You call him Doctor."

[danno3150]

This woman is obviously suing. Malpractice insurance will pay out. We will get screwed when the cost of med-mal insurance goes up. Aint' life grand. I'd love to blame the bottom feeding PI attorneys for this, but the MD's are just as bad. I will never understand why the medical profession does such a poor job of self-governing. Quacks like this guy can continue their malpractice with little or no recourse. As I said, the financial penalties get passed along to the patients, and we are forced to pay through our insurance. It's long past the time where medical boards should become more than paper tigers! I'll bet the real threat of having his license yanked for a year or two would habve been more than enough incentive for a more thorough check of the patient.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Ahmmm...anybody seen ma' pipe wrench?????