Published on: 2025-04-17 08:20:41
Sponges, drill bits and wires: Surgeons mistakenly left objects inside thousands of patients since 2015 Hospitals leave items in patients during surgeries in hundreds of cases per year, sometimes resulting in injuries and death. For a week after her surgery, 26-year-old Emily Abney-Acosta’s abdomen swelled. It was so tender that a tight shirt was too much pressure. She couldn’t stand up straight from the pain or lift her young children. In September 2018, she rushed to an emergency department
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