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In Surgery, Failing 'No Sponge Left Behind'
By Candy Sagon, December 21, 2012 11:05 AM
Here's a scary statistic: A surgeon in the U.S. leaves a foreign object, such as a sponge or towel, inside a patient's body after an operation 39 times a week.
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