British woman dies because of hospital blunder
(NEWSER) - A British woman died because doctors failed to notice that she had a 6-inch piece of toilet brush—the handle part, not the brush part—embedded in her buttock after a drunken fall, an inquest found. It took 2 years for doctors to discover the source of the woman's chronic pain, by which time it had become embedded in her pelvis, making surgery difficult and dangerous. More»
