Seattle police are investigating how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire in 2003.
According to Reuters, the patient "went up in flames after alcohol poured on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument:"
The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire, said Dr. Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.
Why do I doubt that the death had nothing to do with the fire?
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