Daily MailHannah ParryGlenford Turner, 61, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, went for surgery to remove his prostate in 2013 at West Haven VA hospital, after he was diagnosed with cancerSurgery was performed by a fifth year urology trainee, supervised by Dr Preston Sprenkle, chief of urologyTurner suffered pain and discomfort in his...
Veteran Sues After Scalpel Found Inside His Body 4 Years After Surgery
NPRMerritt KennedyGlenford Turner had surgery in 2013 at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut. Four years later, according to a new lawsuit, doctors discovered that a sharp metal surgical instrument had been accidentally left inside the Army veteran's body."It's perplexing to me how they could be so incompetent that a...
For 4 years, he said he was in pain. Then they found the scalpel.
Boston GlobeJeremy C. FoxA Connecticut Army veteran alleges that a surgeon left a surgical instrument in his abdomen during a 2013 operation at a Veterans Administration hospital, and the object remained there for nearly four years, despite his complaints of pain, according to a federal lawsuit.Glenford Turner, 61, who spent...