A 47 year-old veteran from Ohio has received a $275,000 settlement in his medical malpractice lawsuit against the Cleveland VA Medical Center.

In 2008, the man had surgery to remove a cancerous kidney. During the operation, two large surgical towels were left inside his body. For two months, the error went unnoticed by medical staff while the man became very sick and began to develop an abscess. A scan later showed the large pads inside his abdomen.

Later that year he had the towels removed, but the extra surgery caused an incisional hernia which lead to a third surgery. He was unable to work for nearly a year.

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