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  Bengaluru: Woman awarded Rs 5 lakh compensation, 20 years after needle left in body

  Karnataka | July 22, 2024 17:21 IST

  The commission directed the hospital and two doctors to pay Rs 50,000 in litigation expenses, while New India Assurance Co Ltd was ordered to pay Rs 5 lakh for "professional and medical negligence." The needle was discovered and removed in 2010, leading to the compensation claim.

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  Incredible: Meet the Russian doctor who removed his own appendix in Antarctica

  World | October 10, 2013 6:49 IST

  New Delhi: There are many doctors across the world who have big achievements to their credit. But this Russian doctor performed a self surgery while on expedition in 1961. Meet this surgeon Leonid Rogozov who