A New Jersey woman died hours after getting a diagnostic procedure and biopsy done on her liver, with doctors causing her to bleed to death internally after claiming she had lesions that did not exist and giving her a “significant laceration,” a lawsuit says.
“A subsequent private forensic autopsy … and accompanying photographic evidence confirmed the total absence of any lesions on the decedent’s liver,” a legal complaint filed by Phyllis Burrell’s family and obtained by Law&Crime states.
“The autopsy also revealed that the decedent had sustained a significant laceration to her liver,” the document alleges. “The autopsy also noted that the decedent suffered a massive and fatal internal hemorrhage.”…