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Study Finds a Shocking Number of Medical Errors

Description:Surgeons have left nearly 5,000 instruments in patients. In a disturbing report, a new study has found that approximately 4,857 objects have been left inside of patients in the past two decades.From September 1990 to September 2010, a research in journal Surgery concluded that there were exactly 9,744 paid malpractice lawsuits during that time frame for “never events, the errors that should never, ever occur". Of that total number, 4,857 objects were left inside of human bodies. (1:16)

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