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The Cleveland Clinic settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died seven years after a surgeon left a rolled-up towel inside her chest.
The confidential agreement with Bonnie Valle's family came Thursday, almost two weeks into a jury trial in Cleveland.
Also Thursday, Judge Nancy Margaret Russo dismissed claims against Valle's Canton-based doctor, Jeffrey Miller.
Valle had surgery for emphysema at the Cleveland Clinic in 1995 and died at age 60 in 2002. She donated her body to the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown, where a dissection revealed a green surgical cloth the size of a large hand towel in her left lung.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070127/ap_on_he_me/towel_in_body&printer=1
The confidential agreement with Bonnie Valle's family came Thursday, almost two weeks into a jury trial in Cleveland.
Also Thursday, Judge Nancy Margaret Russo dismissed claims against Valle's Canton-based doctor, Jeffrey Miller.
Valle had surgery for emphysema at the Cleveland Clinic in 1995 and died at age 60 in 2002. She donated her body to the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown, where a dissection revealed a green surgical cloth the size of a large hand towel in her left lung.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070127/ap_on_he_me/towel_in_body&printer=1