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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\"></p>           GALVESTON - A Galveston County woman alleges that an obstetrician-gynecologist at Texas City's Mainland Medical Center left a foreign object inside her abdomen six years ago after a Caesarean section, recent court documents say.<br /><br />In a lawsuit filed Jan. 18 in Galveston County District Court, Phaedra R. Mills blames Dr. Janice R. Crowder for failing to remove all surgical sponges prior to closing her abdomen.<br /><br />Mills claims Crowder on Nov. 3, 2004, performed the procedure without any assistance, which reportedly and ultimately caused the complainant to suffer a possible hernia.<br /><br />In January 2010, Mills sought medical attention for alleged problems with her abdomen and pelvis. She learned that the left lower quadrant of her abdomen contained a lap sponge marker which had to be surgically removed, the original petition says.<br /><br />The suit faults Crowder for neglecting to disclose that \"the treatment involved risks and hazards that would have influenced a reasonable person in making a decision to give or withhold consent\" while it accuses both the physician and the hospital of unilaterally severing the doctor-patient relationship \"without reasonable notice to the plaintiff and without providing adequate alternate medical care for the plaintiff while the plaintiff was in need of continued care and medication.\"<br /><br />Consequently, Mills seeks unspecified monetary damages.<br /><br />She is represented by attorney Elijah Gooden III of Houston.<br /><br />The case has been assigned to Galveston County 122nd District Court Judge John Ellisor.<br /><br /><em>Case No. 11-cv-0077</em><br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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