"MRI REVEALED SURGEON HAD LEFT A SCALPEL IN [ARMY VETERAN'S] ABDOMEN 4 YEARS EARLIER"

I find this to be absolutely incredible.  What, the surgeon completes an exhaustive surgery, leaves a scalpel in someone's gut, turns and walks to wash up after telling his staff to "Okay, stitch him up"?  Is that how it went down?  

Some surgeries are necessary, no doubt.  But I wonder how many you could avoid if you maintained a broad spectrum of vital nutrient compounds, day after day, meal after meal?  I wonder.  Check out what happened to veteran, Glen Turner, and then check out the products at the bottom of this post.  Thanks for reading.

HARTFORD, Conn. - An Army veteran says an MRI revealed that a surgeon had left a scalpel in his abdomen four years earlier.

Glenford Turner, 61, of Bridgeport, went to the West Haven VA with abdominal pain last April when the surprising discovery was made, according to his lawyer. Turner required surgery to remove the scalpel, and last week filed suit against the Veterans Administration.

"Xrays revealed the presence of an abandoned scalpel inside Mr. Turner's body. Doctors confirmed that is was the scalpel knife used during Turner's radical prostatectomy - performed four years earlier at the West Haven VA," attorney Joel Faxon of New Haven said in a statement Monday announcing the lawsuit.

Administrators at the VA Connecticut Healthcare's West Haven campus could not be reached Monday, which was a federal holiday.

In the lawsuit, Turner says he underwent a robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy at the West Haven VA on Aug. 30, 2013. He returned to the VA hospital on March 29, 2017, for an MRI after complaining of dizziness and long-term abdominal pain, Faxon said.

"The imaging study was abruptly halted when Mr. Turner began to experience severe, worsened abdominal pain," and subsequent X-rays revealed the scalpel, Faxon said.

The instrument was removed in an operation in April 2017.

Faxon described the incident as "an incomprehensible level of incompetence." The suit seeks unspecified compensatory damages, and claims Turner suffered pain, additional surgery, hospitalization, prolonged rehabilitation, medical expenses and lost work time.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut called the allegations "egregious" and said he's asking the VA for a detailed explanation of what happened.

Visit The Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.) at www.courant.com

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