www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroomWASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, wrote separately today to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary David Shulkin and VA Inspector General Michael J. Missal demanding answers for allegations of appalling medical malpractice involving a veteran who was operated on...
Army vet, 61, sues after discovering a five-inch SCALPEL was left in his body FOUR YEARS ago during cancer surgery at VA hospital leaving him in agony
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...