{"id":658437,"date":"2026-10-27T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658437\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:27:32","slug":"nightmarish-extreme-surgery-errors-plague-texas-hospitals-including-one-woman-sterilized-by-accident-another-whose-cancer-wasnt-removed-and-a-third-with-needle-left-inside-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658437\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmarish ‘extreme surgery errors’ plague Texas hospitals including one woman sterilized by accident, another whose cancer wasn’t removed and a third with needle left inside her"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas<\/a> hospitals\u00a0are experiencing a troubling number of ‘extreme surgical errors,’ but damages paid out to patients are capped by state law, a bombshell report revealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has a category of extreme surgical errors called serious reportable events, also known as ‘never events.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Never events’ fall into four categories: wrong procedure, wrong patient, wrong site and unintentionally retained object.<\/p>\n

In 2024, DSHS reported 128 cases of retained objects, 73 wrong site, 26 wrong procedure and 11 wrong patient, according to an analysis by The Dallas Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A year before, in 2023, there were 130 retained object cases,\u00a050 wrong site, 20 wrong procedure and six wrong patient.<\/p>\n

While the numbers are alarming, state law caps the amount of non-economic damages hospitals must pay in medical malpractice lawsuits, such as pain and suffering, while there is no limit on medical bills or lost wages.<\/p>\n

State-owned hospitals may be protected by caps that can limit recovery to as little as $100,000 per person in some cases, while private healthcare providers are generally subject to a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages.<\/p>\n

One woman who spoke to the newspaper, Morgan Jackson, said she was accidentally sterilized by her doctor after giving birth.<\/p>\n

\"Texas <\/p>\n

Texas hospitals have been rocked by a wave of ‘extreme surgical errors,’ yet victims face strict state-imposed limits on the damages they can recover, a bombshell report revealed<\/p>\n

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One woman who spoke to the newspaper, Morgan Jackson, said she was accidentally sterilized by her doctor after giving birth<\/p>\n

In July 2023, Jackson said she went to a Houston hospital for a scheduled C-section, and her doctor was supposed to remove a cyst on her left ovary.<\/p>\n

However, after the doctor removed the cyst and her left ovary and left fallopian tube, they continued with a full sterilization.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her doctor later testified that he could not find Jackson’s chart before surgery and read an inaccurate summary of the procedure before going in, according to the newspaper.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘If this had not happened to us at all, we could have had at least one more baby,’ Jackson said. ‘That choice was taken away from me.’<\/p>\n

Janie Ayala discovered she had two lumps in her right breast; one was benign, and the other was cancerous, according to The Dallas Morning News.<\/p>\n

She went in for a lumpectomy to remove the cancerous lump in her right breast in July 2017.<\/p>\n

However, about five months later, in mid-December 2017, she had another mammogram, and doctors found that the cancerous lump had not been removed, but the benign one had.<\/p>\n

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One woman learned the wrong tumor had been removed during her surgery, and another discovered a needle had been left inside her after a C-section<\/p>\n

Her doctors then found that the cancer had spread and she now required a mastectomy. She also had to go through four cycles of chemotherapy to treat the cancer.<\/p>\n

‘I thought I was going to lose my mom,’ Ayala’s youngest daughter, Beatrice ‘Bebee’ Gary, told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

‘She went through hell and came back, and then went through hell again and came back.’<\/p>\n

She eventually settled a lawsuit with the hospital and is subject to a confidentiality agreement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beatriz Cerda gave birth to her daughter via C-section in 2022 and thought nothing of it for years, she told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Then, in September 2025, she thought she had appendicitis and went to the hospital.<\/p>\n

A CT scan ruled out appendicitis, but doctors discovered a curved metal object about three centimeters long in her abdomen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When she had surgery to remove it, after making their first incision, doctors discovered the needle had moved, Cerda said.<\/p>\n

After additionally bringing in an X-ray machine to find it and making another incision, doctors found the needle fully encased in its original packaging.<\/p>\n

‘But to me, I’m like, “How do you lose that?”‘ Cerda said. ‘I could possibly understand losing a single needle, but a whole plastic-packaged needle is insane to me.’<\/p>\n

She reached a settlement with the hospital that left the needle in, but because she had removed it at a different hospital, she was forced to pay $7,000 in medical bills.<\/p>\n

‘When something like this happens, it’s really shocking,’ she said. ‘And so, to me, I just feel like there needs to be more protection for patients.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail has reached out to the\u00a0Texas Department of State Health Services for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas hospitals\u00a0are experiencing a troubling number of ‘extreme surgical errors,’ but damages paid out to patients are capped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2039,163,521,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-658437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-dailymail","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}