Woman Catches Fire During Surgery – A breast cancer patient who caught fire during surgery has filed a lawsuit against a doctor in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The lawsuit claims Connie Plumlee was accidentally set on fire during breast reconstructive surgery at Saint John Medical Center last December.

The suit says a cauterizing tool sparked the fire after Dr. Brad Garber used alcohol to swab Plumlee’s chest before the medical procedure.

“When I first woke up in recovery, a gentleman was standing over me and said, ‘Do you know what happened?’ He had tears in his eyes and I said, ‘Surgery.’ I was so sedated. He goes, ‘You were burned,’ and that stuck with me,” Plumlee told reporters.

Four months after the botched surgery, Plumlee said she is still in immense pain. As a result of the fire, her face and lips are deformed; and she said she needs “constant medical care” and may need more surgery.

An attorney for Dr. Garber said they could not comment on the lawsuit.

And that’s the latest from Action News on woman catches fire during surgery.

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