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"Now where'd that towel go..."
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| Aristronica |
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CANTON, Ohio - The Cleveland Clinic settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died seven years after a surgeon left a rolled-up towel inside her chest.
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The confidential agreement with Bonnie Valle's family came Thursday, almost two weeks into a jury trial in Cleveland.
Also Thursday, Judge Nancy Margaret Russo dismissed claims against Valle's Canton-based doctor, Jeffrey Miller.
Valle had surgery for emphysema at the Cleveland Clinic in 1995 and died at age 60 in 2002. She donated her body to the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown, where a dissection revealed a green surgical cloth the size of a large hand towel in her left lung.
Her family sued in 2004, claiming that because Valle's doctors never found the towel, she suffered serious complications, incurred medical expenses and died.
"She always said, `On the left side it feels like there's something there. It felt like something moved,'" Valle's daughter, Jeanne Clark, said in 2004.
Clinic attorneys disagreed that the towel affected Valle's health.
In a letter to the medical school, Miller wrote that he did not think the towel affected the length or quality of Valle's life.
"She lived seven years ... which is certainly as well as one would have expected her to survive given her severe emphysema and poor pulmonary function and overall condition," Miller wrote.
how a doctor forgets a towel in a patient, a bright green surgical one for that matter, i have no idea. what was he hungover? |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| my aunt, god rest her ing ass, had some kind of surgery on her chest (in mexico). After the operation, she got seriously sick and re-admitted and after doing an X-Ray they found a bolt or tongs or something like that the doctors had accidently left in there. |
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| Aristronica |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
my aunt, god rest her ing ass, had some kind of surgery on her chest (in mexico). After the operation, she got seriously sick and re-admitted and after doing an X-Ray they found a bolt or tongs or something like that the doctors had accidently left in there. |
note to self - don't get surgery in ohio and mexico. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| the past 1-2 years most reputable hospitals now account for EVERYTHING that was brought in before closing someone up. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
thats a good xray |
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