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Associated Press Featured Article

October 18, 2010

Piece of drill bit left in RI hospital patient

By Associated Press ,

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A surgeon and other staff have been suspended and public health officials have launched an investigation after a piece of a surgical drill bit was left inside a patient's head following a procedure at Rhode Island Hospital.


The hospital says a roughly quarter–inch long piece broke off and was left in a patient's scalp during neurosurgery on Aug. 4.

The piece was discovered and removed on Aug. 6 "without incident" according to the hospital, and the incident was reported to the state Department of Health.

WPRI–TV reports that the hospital suspended the doctor and operating room staff. Their names were not released.

A Health Department spokesman confirmed the investigation.

The hospital was fined $50,000 after brain surgeons operated on the wrong part of the heads of three patients in 2007.



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