[BBC News | Health | UK Edition](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/devon/4562997.stm)
>A Devon hospital apologises for leaving a scalpel blade inside the body of man having a heart bypass operation.
Oops. Personally, I’ve never seen a scalpel blade *fall off* the knife handle and I can’t imagine they were using a *free* blade.