A 58-year-old man from Riverside County is suing the University of California Board of Regents after undergoing a routine outpatient procedure to repair the meniscus in his left knee ended with him tragically losing much of his leg.
In April 2024, Wayne Wolff, an electrician and resident of Perris, checked into UCI Medical Center’s Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center where UC Irvine team Dr. Dean Wang, the head of the hospital’s sports medicine, performed his surgery, The Orange County Register reported .
In a lawsuit filed on Feb. 11 in Orange County Superior Court, Wolff and his wife, Lisa Wolff, a long-time emergency room nurse, allege Dr. Wang severed and cauterized a main artery, which supplies blood to the lower left extremity, that he mistakenly thought was a vein…