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In a horrific and shocking story from The Oregonian, the family of an Oregon man is seeking $900,000 in damages from a hospital after his face caught on fire mid-surgery while he was allegedly awake.
The details of this unimaginable ordeal are laid out in a malpractice lawsuit filed by John Michael Murdoch’s widow against Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), as originally reported by The Oregonian. The lawsuit claims that Murdoch, who was undergoing surgery in 2022 for squamous cell carcinoma on his tongue, suffered severe burns when medical staff failed to ensure that alcohol applied to sterilize his skin had dried properly. As a result,
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