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Scandal doctor left a cell phone in the patient's stomach
Jordanian Hanan Mahmoud Abdul Karim experienced something truly incredible. When she gave birth to her first child by caesarean section in April 2015, a serious medical error occurred. Although the cut birth was without complications and she was able to leave the clinic a short time after the procedure, she got very soon later massive pain and high fever. And again, the young mother had to go to the clinic, so that an emergency operation could be initiated again.
Pain and vibration
The mother's happiness lasted only a short time "I had incredible stomach aches," the 35-year-old mother told "Gulf News". "The stomach felt like it was vibrating". Her family immediately took the suffering woman to a clinic. It was the same hospital where her son was born. Locally, doctors did not know what to do, according to the Arab Gulf News. The father unceremoniously packed his daughter and drove her to another hospital. There, the doctors immediately took an x-ray. There was clearly a foreign body in the patient's stomach. "It looked like a cell phone," one of the doctors said.
The patient underwent immediate surgery. During the operation confirmed the incredible suspicion. "It was actually a smartphone". During the cesarean section, apparently one of the doctors had left the cell phone in the patient's stomach. "How can this happen?" The doctors ask themselves. The injured party now wants to initiate proceedings against the responsible doctor.
Not an isolated case
Again and again, such incredible treatment errors happen. Thus, an Australian patient lived for 15 years with severe abdominal pain and constant fever: A doctor had forgotten during surgery a large sponge in the abdominal cavity. Now the injured party sued her former surgeon for damages. He said only, "the operation was far too long ago." That could not be. But when an OP started, the doctor had actually forgotten a sponge in his stomach. (Sb)
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