South Carolina has awarded $1 million to the estate of a 58-year-old patient who died in agony after surgeons left a blade inside him for many days.
Jeffrey Alan Fulcher, a husband and father of three, had minimally invasive surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina in June 2022 to remove a portion of his esophagus after being diagnosed with localized carcinoma, a type of cancer.
According to local broadcaster WCSC, a Thompson retractor blade became lodged within Fulcher’s abdomen during the treatment, as evidenced by court filings…