Medical malpractice settlement over sponge left in judge

A recent report estimates that roughly 1,500 hospital patients in the United States each year have surgery only to find later that a foreign object was left behind -- inside them. The most common item left in patients' bodies are sponges. But very few are as large as the sponge left inside 67-year-old Floridian Nelson E. Bailey, who five months after surgery for a digestive disease -- and