RUBBER GLOVE
FOUND ON PATIENT’S LUNG.
AMAZING BLUNDER
Sydney Aucust 18 How a surgical glove found a resting place after an operation on a paient’s lung for over a year before it was discovered, has been told bv a Svdnev surgeon who recently operated on the patient in a public hospital and removed the glove.
The first operation, during which the glove slipped on to the lung, -as performed by another doctor in another hospital. Alter the glove was extracted, the patient's condition progressively improved for nearly a month. He then sank and died.
There have been instances reported of swabs and even forceps, sewn up >n a patient after operation, hut a surgical glove is. to say the least, unusual.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 218, 29 August 1927, Page 8
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