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UK’s NHS failed to spot toilet brush handle in woman’s buttocks

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Cindy Corton, 35, was left with the bizarre injury after a drunken fall in a friend’s bathroom in 2005.

She was twice seen by hospital staff in the aftermath of the incident and an X-ray was carried out.

But an inquest heard it took Mrs Corton, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, two years to convince doctors that the handle was lodged in flesh of her bottom.

Full source: Woman died after doctors failed to spot toilet brush in her buttocks – Telegraph