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The Surgeon Who Shouldn't Have Operated: When Medicine Fails Patients
The Surgeon Who Shouldn't Have Operated: When Medicine Fails Patients
A routine throat procedure turned into years of horror when a surgical sponge was left sealed inside Jeff Glidewell’s neck, leading to sepsis and more than fifty follow-up operations that cost him an esophagus, a vocal cord, and his former life. How did a surgeon with a twelve-page CV, fifteen years of training, and clean reference letters leave a trail of death, paralysis, and catastrophic blood loss before being stopped?
In this episode, we tell the story of what happened, who was involved, and the systemic failures that…
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