Oops, we forgot a sponge in your stomach during surgery. Sorry!

Recently two hospitals in Ventura County have been fined 25,000 dollars each for leaving sponges in patients during surgery, forcing them to come back for a second surgery to remove the sponges, and who knows how much pain those sponges caused. Santa Paula and Thousand Oaks were only two of ten hospitals in California that have been fined for leaving sponges in their patients. In my opinion, 25,000 dollars is not enough for putting a person's life in danger by forgetting a tool inside their bodies. Doctors need to be less careless, and focus more on the surgery. If they are forgetting sponges inside, obviously their mind is not in the right place, which makes me very uneasy to know that while operating on someone, a doctor could easily be thinking about their personal lives instead of focussing on the patients life.