The family of a Colorado man who died during routine cataract surgery in 2023 has settled a lawsuit with the doctors blamed for his death.
According to a report by KUSA, a local NBC affiliate, 56-year-old Bart Writer was undergoing a routine procedure to treat cataracts on Feb. 3, 2023 at the InSight Surgery Center in Lone Tree, a suburb of Denver. The surgeon in charge, Dr. C. Starck Johnson, had known the patient for several years, and was scheduled to perform alongside anesthesiologist Dr. Michael Urban. The extremely common procedure was supposed to take about 10 minutes.
It was so routine that the medical team told Bart Writer’s wife, Chris Writer, that she could leave the facility to run errands if she wished…