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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A university in northern Ohio will pay a Toledo woman $250,000 after a doctor at its medical center left a piece of surgical gauze in her body.
The Ohio Court of Claims approved the settlement last week between the University of Toledo and the woman who filed a lawsuit after what she said were a series of botched surgeries.
She has said that she suffered bladder, pelvic and other internal problems after the procedures in 2013. The woman says a doctor left a piece of gauze in her body and then performed more surgeries on her.
A spokesman for the university declined to comment.
The woman's attorney tells The Blade newspaper in Toledo that a state law that caps pain and suffering claims limited how much money the woman received.
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