Doctors Forgot to Remove Appendix, Patient Sues

Forty-three year-old William McCormack of Bronxville, New York needed an appendectomy and went to a local clinic for the operation. Apparently the doctors were distracted by something because some time later he began having stomach pains and when they checked him at the hospital it was discovered that his appendix was still inside him. Apparently no one from the hospital, nor the doctor or anyone from his office called Mr. McCormack to advise him that apparently something had run amiss in the operation and that the appendix was not removed. McCormack is now suing the hospital. The hospital pathology report says what had been removed was "a three centimeter yellowish mass", but not the appendix.