This one statement is case-in-point of the difference between the US and Japan.
Asahi hospital officials visited the man and apologised, he said.
The former patient has no plans to sue the hospital, which is in talks with him over compensation or other measures, the official said.
Japanese media reports said the man, who was not identified, still had his spleen removed.
So the hospital that left the towel in for 25 years apologized to him, the man won't sue, but he will probably get his medical bills paid for or some other small settlement. There wasn't 25 trial lawyers parachuted in from a C130, they didn't hang the doctor from a meat hook, and the Asahi hospital won't have to go bankrupt from the multi-million dollar lawsuit it will be hit with. No unmitigated greed but just a civil apology and some sane financial compensation.
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