PRAGUE - It took five long months for a Czech woman to discover the reason for her pain: Doctors had left a foot-long medical tool inside her abdomen.
This month, doctors at a clinic in the southeastern town of Ivancice discovered their colleagues had forgotten to remove a spatula-like surgical instrument from the woman following gynecological surgery in September.
Top regional official Michal Hasek apologized Zdenka Kopeckova, 66, and said Monday that the region, which is in charge of the clinic, plans to compensate her.
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Clinic head Jaromir Hrubes blamed "a series of individual failures" and said four employees had been punished.
CT24 news television reported that the woman, who complained repeatedly to her doctors about the pain, plans to sue.
This clinic is mortally fu*ked. The article seems suprised she is going to sue. You get surgery you don't expect to wake up with a one foot spatula in you. When this lady comes back complaining of pain days later you think they would x-ray her and see this inside her but nope since they are Czechs it takes them FIVE MONTHS to discover this. If I was this ladies doctor when I see the foot spatula in her on her x-ray I dont tell her or tell her its her kidney we have to operate and take it out. When Im operating I take out the spatula and tell her we fixed the kidney.
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