Comments on: Doctors Leave Medical Objects Inside 1500 Patients Each Year

By: Ms Hardy

Ms Hardy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:19:23 +0000

I have a question in regard to something similiar to the wendy’s incident. On 9/21/2009 I experienced something similiar. I am in Montgomery,AL and was eating lunch in one of the local nationwide restuarants and experienced eating ceramic glass in my salad. I went to the ER and some of it was still visible on the xray. However, I haven’t been able to find anyone here to handle this type of case. Help me!

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By: deeply worried

deeply worried — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:08:17 +0000

And they are supposed to be water-proof…”keeps on tickin’”!

Tapes and transcripts were probably mistakenly implanted in Cheney, but he will plead 4th Amendment against any attempts to retrieve them.

Happy Friday….I guess.

By: jonathanturley

jonathanturley — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:11:39 +0000

Well, the nice thing is that patients are allowed to keep any objects left inside of them.

By: Patty C

Patty C — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:21:47 +0000

Possession is 9/10 the law…

Even better, the hypothetical, not-so-mistakenly implanted ‘missing’ interrogation tapes…

By: deeply worried

deeply worried — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:35:13 +0000

An interesting question is ownership of mistakenly implanted items. Suppose the surgeon left his rolex in the patient (I know that the surgical gloves make this high unlikely, but grant me the hypothetical).

Years later, it shows up in an xray and is extracted in a second surgery.

Can the patient claim ownership? (perhaps in lieu of a more substantial recovery from a malpractice claim )

By: Patty C

Patty C — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:35:43 +0000

I know I’ll regret this, because I agree in the negligence argument
-totally.

But I wonder how many would say there is a certain assumption of risk, as in the broken tooth resulting from a cherry pit contained in a fresh cherry pie, as opposed to the completely unexpected, unmarked, ‘empty’ elevator shaft and/or its implied trust.

By: randron

randron — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:35:03 +0000

From a Republican point of view, this is GOOD news because at least these doctors didn’t leave 1500 objects in ONE patient!