Everyone should have seen the news of the abdominal cavity left after surgery, and today's case is so outrageous, but the situation of leaving gauze has not caused serious consequences to the patient.
In 2010, Ms. Wang went to the hospital for surgery because she had uterine fibroids, and the hospital performed a total hysterectomy for her.
Until 2020, Ms. Wang went to the hospital again due to stomach pain and fever, and Ms. Wang's condition did not improve after the hospital was conservative, so she cut an abdominal cyst for drainage. After the medical staff opened Ms. Wang's abdominal cavity, they found that the culprit of Ms. Wang's abdominal pain and fever was a piece of gauze left over from the operation. So I took it out. After the operation, Ms. Wang recovered well, and she realized that there was a piece of gauze in her stomach that had been left for ten years.
Ms. Wang could not bear to take the hospital to court, and the appraisal opinion showed that the doctor was at fault for not fulfilling the duty of care and high care when performing the "subtotal hysterectomy" on the patient, and there was a causal relationship between the damage caused by the loss of one piece of gauze left in the patient's abdominal cavity and the fault of the doctor, and the doctor should be fully responsible for the damage caused by the loss of one piece of gauze left in the patient's abdominal cavity.
The court held that the defendant's negligent act in the medical process caused the gauze to remain in the plaintiff's body, causing the plaintiff to suffer physical and mental pain for many years, so the defendant should bear all the tort liability. Therefore, the hospital was sentenced to pay Ms. Wang 100,000 yuan.