Bruce Brient, MD, must pay a $15,000 administrative fee and deliver a lecture on retained objects after two sponges were left in a patient during bariatric surgery in 2010, according to a Gainesville ...

The University of Michigan Health System has created a new system using state-of-the-art technologies to ensure foreign objects are not left in patients during surgery. Some of the methods to prevent ...

Roughly every day in the U.S., at least one patient leaves a surgery with an object, such as a sponge, needle or broken tool fragment, unintentionally left inside them. A Hearst Newspapers ...