Well: Ensuring Nothing's Left Behind in a Patient

Every year in the United States, 4,000 cases of "retained surgical items" -- clamps, scalpels, scissors and sponges -- are left inside a patient's body after surgery.

Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/when-surgeons-leave-objects-behind/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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