Sad that nicking the colon sounds common, guy in my office went thru the same thing.
On another thread yesterday, I posted the reminder that on February 8, 2010, then Democrat Congressman John Murtha (Pa.) died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., where he was admitted on Jan. 31. The gallbladder surgery was performed days earlier at the National Naval Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. They nicked his large intestine during the operation.