Unfucking real story about a surgery
 

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/0....ap/index.html

I'm totally amazed.

wow

That's fucked up.

haha sucks to be her, then again shes gona get alot of money

Too bad she's dead.

that's just know hitting the headlines again? damn lawsuits are slow.. I remember reading about this a few years ago. when she first died.

She is dead. Not much she can do with it.

Unfortunately, the woman is dead -- they didn't find the foreign object until afterwards. Very, very sad.

In a letter to the medical school, Miller wrote that he did not think the towel affected the duration 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



hard to believe this bastard

2 packs a day since she was 15?? Pretty easy to believe actually.

That towel was steril. It would be like putting a breast implant. in. it may become encapuslated, but that would not have had anything to do with her death.

She died at 60....unbelievable how a surgeon could let that happen

How the hell could a surgeon forget a towel inside a person's body. Truly messed up!

WG

You guys should try to get a copy of the autopsy video ;)

A friend of mine in high school had surgery to remove a brain tumor. They left a cotton ball in his head and it set up an infection that almost killed him and it left his face partially paralyzed. He ended up getting a couple of million dollars out of it. He's really lucky to be alive.

It's a shame she didn't make it. :(

This kind of thing has happened before, objects in the operating room being left inside the patient. Truly horrific.

If you have any surgeory done on you and you experience odd chronic pain, go to several doctors and have them run their tests and so on. You just never know.

i agree :)

i here it happens all the time

Canton, Ohio... figures. All the fucked up stories happen in here in Ohio.

That kind of thing happens all the time. Surgeons forget sponges, clamps, even surgical tools. Its actually common.

The crazy part about the story, is that essentially the woman killed herself by sucking the smoke of 2 packs of cigs a day into her lungs for decades. Now ultimately when the costs are all passed on from the bogus lawsuit, we're all going to pay to make her family instant millionaires for something that most likely had zero to do with her death. THAT is the fucked up story...

Operating rooms have standard procedures. Everything is counted prior to surgery and then counted again before closing to make sure nothing was left behind. So obviously either someone can't count or someone was not following procedure.

Talk about throwing in the towel. :1orglaugh

Okay, that was bad, but I had to. Poor lady.

that is crazy

Surgeons fucking up like this isn't as rare as you might think..

Agreed

Fucking idiots.

I wonder how many times she went in to the doctor to complain about the strange pain only to be patted on the back, handed some pain pills, and told that it was just the effect of her having smoked for all of those years.

IMO, western medicine is scam meant to separate you from your health and wealth. :2 cents:

The doctors could do surgery like that 7 years ago? Amazing, now days they probebly have a pill you take lol, she was very luck just to get almost an entire decade of life after poisening her self like that, the trully sick part is that she probebly continued to smoke even after the surgery. (probebly paid for by my tax dollars)

are towels to replace saline/silicone as implants? LOL

http://www.timesreporter.com/photos/...004/towel1.jpg

nice

http://www.timesreporter.com/left.php?ID=32380&r=0

still don't have much sympathy for her, ? is how long would she have lasted with out the surgery? How long would she have lasted even with out the towel? Probebly not very long. She was even in the medical field and she continued to smoke like a moron, very little sympathy, althou have to admit the doctor appears to be pretty shady.

It's fucked up - I'll give you that... BUT!
Smoking two packs of cigarettes a day and still making it to her 60th birthday is still more than she could have expected...

Geh!

That's worse than waking up and finding a dick in your ass.

j-

That happened to me once :waaaaahh :Hollering :disgust :(

But two years ago, a coworkers wife went to pop one out (a baby) and they did a c-section, leaving a cloth in her ... belly.

Two days later, there was a "weird smell coming from the wound" which they reopened and snatched out the rotting, bloody piece of surgical cloth.

I dunno if they sued cause I never liked them and could care less; but had to hear about it at the office until I told them all to eat my dirty ass, then left. :thumbsup

My mom had a C-section when she gave birth - the doctor left tissue paper in her body when they sealed her up. She's fine, but that's still fucked up on the doctor's part.

comming from rick you know some shits gotta be really really fucked up

Yeesh. I guess operating rooms must be a lot like mechanic's garages. They take the shit apart, lay out all the different pieces, and when they put it back, there's like pieces left over. Oh, wait that's different, isn't it? Well, I just can't figure how they could misplace a hand towel in a body. There just aint all that much extra room in there for extra. Unless, it's kinda like when you eat so much your whole middle section gets swollen, and you wonder what the fuck is in there? Yeah.

damn

Fucked up shit and it happens all the time usually it's harmless but then there are times like this...

That's really fucked up ... some doctors should experience their own tables sometimes.