North Florida Regional Surgeon Disciplined for Retained Foreign Object Case in 2010

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Bruce Brient, MD, must pay a $15,000 administrative fee and deliver a lecture on retained objects after two sponges were left in a patient during bariatric surgery in 2010, according to a Gainesville Sun report.

Read the full report in Becker’s ASC Review on retained foreign objects.

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