News Quickie: Leftover Surgery Surprise

A local man is suing after a surgeon left an entire tool sewn up inside of him

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:20):
Cowboys then, but right now it's time for this. Give
me that news quickie. All right. I saw this story
on the news last night, and I was like, my god,
I'm just gonna read a little bit of it that
I'm gonna show you guys a picture.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Gennaro Nova rated his pain as a nine out of ten.
His blood pressure was high, he was throwing up. This
is straight from the Dallas Spring News. The row Let
resident was several days out from a major surgery to
remove a cancerous tumor, and he wasn't recovering as well
as expected. His doctors ordered an X ray and it

(00:58):
showed why he would so sick. Hey, go Ben, I'm
gonna hand you this. Oh it's a thing in your body,
not on your body. Look at that they found a
baseball bat in his body?

Speaker 2 (01:10):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:11):
According to Novia and his attorney, the surgical team had
left a nearly ten inch long surgical instrument inside his body.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
This is an episode of the pit right here?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Basically he is now suing Baylor University Medical Center and
the three surgeons for the air. It's a mistake that
he and his attorney say caused significant physical pain and
mental anguish at a time when Nova was already dealing
with an existing medical issue. Okay, So they found it
in his body and it looks like an Allen Iverson

(01:47):
arm sleeve, but I can't tell, or like a whiffleball bat?

Speaker 2 (01:50):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
They just called it a surgical instrument? Can you see that, Christine?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yes, Well, it looks in the instrument for.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
This looks like it could tie into our last story,
Pete Davidson. That thing's got batteries in it. This looks
like the same story. And in this picture it's like basically,
it looks like it's up against his lungs and it's
you know, ten inches, which is.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
What he was dealing with.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Man, what if Pete Davidson ended up inside this guy's body.
I don't think he would want that, just based on
the people we've seen him date. Oh, Peter, I thought
you were talking about it. It's usually starlets, Yeah, scarletts
that he likes to date.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Stop sexualizing him, guys, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, dude, Just talk about what a great artist he is.
He is one of the great artists. He's a beautiful comedian.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay. So but here's what I started thinking about.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
So, when they're doing surgery, do they just set tools
on you?

Speaker 3 (02:52):
That's what so I immediately thought back to that story where
those doctors were playing music bingo, you know, like, yeah,
clearly they were distracted big time to leave something that
big inside the person that's insane.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Did something fall inside him? You watch the pit, yes,
you know it goes Yeah, well, there's a lot of chaos,
there's turmoil happening, and there's eight people in there, and
maybe it's somebody else left it in there and the
person who was sewing it up didn't realize that was
in there. Maybe when they're I don't know, it seems
like you would just look under the hood before you
shut the hood. Guys, hurry sew him up. I don't

(03:27):
want to look and see if we've made any mistakes.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Man, that's a big mistake. It's a mistake.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
I wonder. Yeah, that's a huge that's a huge thing.
Like I wonder even.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
What it is.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
It makes me think that it's some sort of something
like a vacuum, not a vacuum, or something to stop
blood from going everywhere, or something that I don't know.
Maybe it's the nozzle of something that you plug in
to keep lungs moving or something during surgery. I have
no idea, but because you're not gonna, like I mean,
I don't know you do to remove tumors. I assume

(04:01):
you go in there and cut it out and then
sew it up. But it's got to be something to
like keep him alive during surgery. And they just didn't.
You know, it's almost like a banana. Okay, it's almost
like they left a banana in there. Okay, right, Yeah,
it's about that size. Right, what if it was an
actual banana and someone who it's clearly it's the nurse

(04:24):
that didn't have the mask on, because it's so hard
to get a banana inside you when you have a
mask on your face. Anyways, godspeed to our buddy, mister Nova,
great Rolet resident. We hope you recover well and we
hope all of this works out amicably for everyone involved. Dude,
that's great. I would love it if this happened to me.

(04:46):
What I would love it because of the payday. Yes,
he's gonna be fine, and he's gonna sue the doors
off the hospital.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
He's it's gonna work out well for him.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
He might he just hit a lotto ticket. Have you
guys been to the mister Novice Surgery Center over there
at the Baylor Dallas campus.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
All right, it's Submit and Skin Show.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
You know. One of our favorite news segments is let
me ask you a question, and Christina's got a great
one for us.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
We'll ask you next.