‘They should be ashamed of themselves’: Army vet says VA hospital left scalpel in body 4 YEARS after surgery
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An Army veteran has filed a lawsuit, accusing a surgeon at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut of leaving a scalpel inside his body–where it remained for four years before being discovered. According to the Hartford Courant, Glenford Turner, 61, claimed underwent a robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy at the West Haven VA on August 30, 2013. He reportedly …