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The 12th Sponge
Susan took up a job in a major medical center. It was her first day at the job and her first assignment as the new head nurse. She would be in charge of all the nurses on the operating room team. She would hold full responsibility for performing all the duties nurses performed.
When the surgery was complete, the surgeon said, “Okay, it’s time to close the incision. I need the sutures.”
“But Dr. Strange, you used 12 sponges,” Susan responded. “I’ve only counted 11 being removed. There’s one sponge unaccounted for.”
Make Punishment Fit The Crime
What punishment should be imposed on a man who shot a police officer almost 40 years ago and fled to Canada, but went on to live an upstanding life as a husband and father who worked in a library?
There was a rare answer here on Friday: Require him to give $250,000 to a foundation that helps the families of injured Chicago police officers.
Joseph Pannell, 58, who admits that he shot a police officer here in 1969, will serve just 30 days in jail and two years’ probation as part of a plea bargain that legal experts called extremely unusual.