Scissors left in woman after surgery

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — Eighteen months after colon surgery, a 69-year-old woman in Sydney discovered that surgeons left a pair of scissors in her abdomen.

Pat skinner's X-ray shows the pair of surgical scissors that were left in her abdomen.
AP

Pat Skinner told reporters Tuesday that she suffered months of pain after doctors at Sydney's St. George Hospital removed part of her colon in May 2001.

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I find it hard to believe the level of incompetence demonstrated by these surgeons in question.

Scary thing is, this happens more often than you would think.

I watched an interview with the woman and because of the area of australia she lives in she will find it near impossible to recieve compensation and will have to foot her own legal bill.

Now where did I leave those scissors...?