The routine op should have been a snip - but Veronika Cruz, 35, was left in agony for three years after surgeons left a huge pair of scissors inside her.
Bungling medics had left the eight-inch long scissors behind during an operation to remove her ovaries in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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A man from Connecticut has been left with a rather bizarre mugshot after being arrested for stabbing a man who was braiding his afro.
David Davis from Newhaven, in Connecticut, was having his hair done when he allegedly grabbed some scissors, slashed his barber's back and fled the scene...
Stay away from Hersha Howard's Thin Mints!
The Collier County woman was arrested Sunday after a savage beatdown of her roommate over a box of the delicious Girl Scout cookies that were apparently off limits to her kids, according to naplesnews.com.
The brawl began when the 31-year-old...
The Collier County woman was arrested Sunday after a savage beatdown of her roommate over a box of the delicious Girl Scout cookies that were apparently off limits to her kids, according to naplesnews.com.
The brawl began when the 31-year-old cookie monster confronted her sleeping roommate...
A word to the wise doctor: After you perform surgery, please double-check to see if you've left any instruments behind -- say, inside the patient you just operated on.
After a woman, Anne, in Lyon, France, complained of postsurgery abdominal pains, an X-ray revealed a pair of 4-inch-long...