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Surgeons Sometimes Leave Sponges Behind
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Surgeons sometimes leave sponges behind in the bodies of patients who are being operated on. Ouseridin: It was a hundred forty million dollar sponge industry, for which there was half a billion dollars spent per year on lawsuitsfor sponges being left inside. The only fallibility is that people will ignore the machine, and those are so there'se the only time there have been sponges left after tens of millions of these kinds of cases.
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