At 05:19 PM 1/16/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Jon Gabriel wrote:
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> http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SURGICAL_TOOLS?SITE=NYWNE&SECTION=HOME
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> Jan 16, 4:11 AM EST
> Surgery Tools Left in 1,500 People a Year
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Or they don't turn up until the patient sets off the metal detector in
the airport with the retractor she didn't know she still had in her....
(Anyone got a URL for an article on that one? It happened relatively
recently....)
I posted it to the list, but for some reason I can't find the URL this morning. I tried some searches, but didn't find the article. This is what I wrote, though:
At 08:02 PM 12/17/02 -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
OTOH, you may have heard the same story I did on the news today about the woman who was stopped when she set off the metal detector at the airport. The detector kept going off, even after she had removed all traces of metal from her person and clothing. It turned out that what was setting off the metal detector was a clamp which had been left in her abdomen after surgery some four months earlier . . .
BTW, what does "It's a Junior Mint" mean?
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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