A New York mom claims bungling Mount Sinai doctors left a needle inside her during one of two surgeries — and she endured seven years of unexplained agony before the discarded sharp was finally discovered, according to a lawsuit.
Jana Petriganova DeGregoris, ironically a nurse herself for the same hospital network, and her husband Gerard DeGregoris, are suing the Manhattan hospital along with doctors Isabel Blumberg, Philip Torina and Scott Nguyen over the roughly 1.5-inch needle she says was found inside her abdomen.
Petriganova DeGregoris, of Scarsdale, underwent a C-section with a plastic surgery wound closure performed by Blumberg and Torina on June 28, 2018, according to the Sept. 24 filing in Manhattan Supreme Court…