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… Award & People's Choice, $1,000 and $500 Retained surgical items (RSIs) are tools left inside patients following surgery, often resulting in malpractice settlements averaging $525,000 per instance. With an estimated 1 error in 10,000 surgeries, and over 90 million surgeries performed annually in the United States, hospitals incur over $4.5 billion in annual…
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