[no_toc]Meet our brother Glenford Turner, a 61 year old Army veteran. Last year he presented to the West Haven VA with abdominal pain. Mr Turner had a radical prostatectomy 4 years earlier and low and behold when they gave him an X-Ray to diagnose the current abdominal pain, there was a scalpel from the surgery 4 years before.
Mr Tuner’s attorney Joel Faxon described the incident as “an incomprehensible level of incompetence” and I couldn’t agree more.
Read the full story below.
https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-west-haven-va-scalpel-lawsuit-20180115-story.html
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