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Forceps Left Inside Patient Poked Through Navel When She Coughed

by | 17th, February 2011

WHEN the French woman coughed the forceps left inside her by a doctor during a tummy tuck operation poked through her navel.

When she told surgeon Dr Bernard Dessapt, of Lyon’s Natecia Clinic, said that he had no need to remove the forceps right away because  “another 24 hours would not change her life“.

Says the woman, known only as Anne:

“He’s still not apologised. He said these things happen and it’s just as well I’m at the end of my career. He said [the removal] was my St. Valentine’s present!”

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Handout x-ray from the Birmingham Childrens Hospital of Siamese twin Eman and Sanchia Mowatt who were born conjoined, the xray shows the twins joined at the back. * Eman and Sanchia are now in intensive care at the city's Diana, Princess of Wales Children's Hospital following the separation operation on Monday.



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