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"SMH reports the Auditor General's report that 20 re-operations were required after patients 'retained' instruments.The cheek of the medical profession to suggest it wasn't a mistake on the surgeon's part to leave a foreign body inside a patient. It was that sneaky pancreas that grabbed an instrument when the surgeon wasn't looking that caused the problem." Ian Foster, Technical Officer, Biomedical Engineering, Wollongong Hospital.