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Woman Awarded $10,000 After Doctor Left Gauze Inside Her

In 1920, a Chicago courtroom heard a medical malpractice case that would sound painfully familiar even today.  Mrs. Hulda Anderson, the wife of a letter…

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When a Surgical Sponge Was Left Inside a Patient

In 1910, a Los Angeles man brought forward the kind of medical malpractice claim that still makes patients uneasy more than a century later: he…

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