A CARELESS SURGEON
GAUZE LEFT IN WOUND. PATIENT AWARDED DAMAGES. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PARJS, June 10. The court ordered a hospital surgeon to pay 10,000 francs as damages to a patient who had to undergo a second operation as the result of a piece of gauze having been left in au incision during the first operation.—A. and N.Z. Gable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19196, 12 June 1924, Page 7
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60A CARELESS SURGEON Otago Daily Times, Issue 19196, 12 June 1924, Page 7
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